Bollywood churns out almost 200 movies every year and hardly 8-10 movies are worth watching out of those. This year started on an average note and suddenly it seems to have picked up steam. Piku, Tanu Weds Manu Returns and now Dil Dhadakne Do! It is a treat to watch such movies, which are so different from each other and yet are total entertainers.

Even though there weren’t many expectations from Dil Dhahdkane Do and even after the release there are mixed reviews, there are certain things about the movie which make it a must watch. Mind you, there is more to the movie than just the voice-over of Aamir Khan for the family dog Pluto also acting as a kind of a narrator! Let’s have a look at the things which does make it a gem!

1) Message Oriented, But Not Preachy

Zoya Akhtar is known for making sensible movies that ordinarily make you think about life and world at large. This movie is no different given the fact that it touches so many subjects like family bonding, women empowerment, social status, hypocrisy etc, yet it never gets preachy about it. The writing of Zoya and her co-writer Reema Kagti is such that everything happens like a very matter of fact without making a whole issue out of things. Subtle, but impactful!

2) Mirror To The Society

Many people feel that, ‘oh this happens only in high society people, we are different’! This is a wrong assumption as the characters depicted in the film might be from the upper strata of society, their problems might also seem trivial, but what’s brewing beneath the surface, their insecurities, ego-tussles, emotional upheaval they go through is all human irrespective of their standing in the society! It is good to see how we are going on doing and saying the wrong things, without even realizing them!

3) Performances

It is a huge ensemble cast with some of the finest actors of our country. Even the supporting cast is exemplary, but what takes the cake is the performance by Anil Kapoor, Shefali Shah and Ranveer Singh! Anil shows yet again why he is such a freaking awesome actor and is still around after almost 30 years in showbiz! Shefali does selected work and what she has done shows the class of this actress. The shades, the layering, the talent to switch between contrasting and contradicting emotions within seconds are simply unbelievable. Ranveer is a revelation if you compare him with his previous work! It may look like a simple role from outside, but boy oh boy; the way he acts is stupendous! Apart from these, everyone else be it Anushka Sharma, Priyanka Chopra, Farhan Akhtar, Rahul Bose, Zarina Wahab or any other actor, they are aptly cast and give their best!

4) Galla Goodhiyaan

As such the music of the film isn’t that awesome, but this song has to be mentioned for the sheer talent of picturising it and for the way it has been performed. It is a good 3 minute song, yet none of the actors in the entire song has gone out of his/her character given the fact that it looks like being shot in one take with no cuts! It is as such very difficult to have such long scenes in one shot, but to have an entire song with the entire cast and supporting cast of the movie in one shot is surely a feat!

5) It is cinema!

For past few years, the biggest superstars of our country are serving cinema that questions ours or their IQ! Yet they gross Rs. 300-400 crore at the box office and after watching such movies, we all feel is it really some entertainment? However, Dil Dhadhakne Do is really a movie with a story, performance and entertainment value associated with movies. It is not a star-run flick with no heads and tails about a story!

If you haven’t watched it, do go for it! You’ll not repent spending those almost three hours in the darkness of a theatre, going away on a cruise and meeting your own life, somewhere there! 

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I had a Bengali friend while I was in school and she always use to correct others for whatever they did wrong!

In a way, a true blue fault finding machine she was!

And a loud declaration of superiority!

Are all Bengalis like that? I always thought!

And Piku, stamped my belief to a great extent!

No, I am not gauging the pedigree of this rosogulla community by the looks, or the way they pronounce certain words or what they cook in their kitchens!

I am simply going by the attitude of superiority and classiness they portray, without being asked for!

Bhashkor Banerjee’s (Amitabh Bachchan) repeated references to being a Bengali in Piku and Rana Chaudhary (Irrfan Khan) being asked if he was a Bengali ‘Chaudhury’ captured this aspect of the perceived superiority of the Bengali bhadralok accurately.

While I loved Shoojit Sircar’s frames that captured the upper middle class life aptly, be it C R Park in Delhi or a heritage house in North Kolkata, what also struck me was how Piku justified Bengali community’s deep-rooted classism through its characters and dialogues.

“He is the owner Baba,” Piku (Deepika Padukone) introducing Rana to Bhashkor Banerjee as the owner of a cab-renting agency and not a taxi driver himself, seemed like a justification her who is an educated Bengali architect, to fall in love with him. I’ve lost count of the number of times the viewers are told in one way or the other that Irrfan Khan was not just a taxi driver, but an educated guy who lost his engineering job abroad and now runs a taxi service. And that is the reason Piku, who otherwise would not have entertained an iota of his personality, is at the least talking to him!

What was the director scared of?

Ruining the portrait of a Bengali Bhadra Woman?

There is more than one instance when over the top persona of Bhashkor meanders from being a sophisticated Bengali to a classist Bengali in Piku. The way he shouts at his domestic help when she complains about his intrusive behaviour to Piku or how he makes his caretaker, Budhan from a West Bengal village do everything for him – even cleaning and sanitizing his portable shit pot. And well, if this can be overlooked as nursing and caring for the elderly, Sircar gives a classist shade to his younger characters as well.

When Piku’s dinner date is blown away due to Bhaskor’s “potty demographic call”, right at the dinner table, Piku actually goes out and cribs about the guy not knowing any of Satyajit Ray movies and not quoting anything from them! Well, really?

Would you really size an otherwise cultured, good-looking and pleasant guy based on how many Bengali movies he watches and not?

And…

Bhashkor Banerjee, the dear dad, ready to put his daughter’s life at stake and wouldn’t mind her going marriageless for the rest of her life just because he is CONSTIPATED!

And that he calls the IQ of a high thinking Bengali! Which very conveniently goes down the drain when he declares his daughter’s virginity to an absolute stranger he is meeting at a party!

And what? Do all bengalis always discuss potty, everywhere, anywhere? And to the graphic details? 

That’s something I don’t see a Punjabi or a South-indian doing! Not at meal times at least!

Otherwise a bold film, appreciated by many for openly talking about a woman’s choices in life and her sexual needs, Piku according to me plays extremely safe when it comes to challenging the Bengali classist undertones in our society.

The film definitely draws from real life and perhaps Piku has successfully reflected the existing post-colonial hang-ups of Bengali Sahib and Memsahib culture, which the modern society has come past by now. Instead of a critical representation, it has embraced it as a current day situation. And that certainly bothers me, and holds me from going near a Bengali!

If all Bengalis are like Bhashkor Banerjee and Piku, I really do hate them!

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Are you tired of the brainless shit served by most Bollywood movies in the name of cinema?

Are you suffering from the constipation of giving a shit to such movies, but can’t?

Are you having problems with too much of mirch-masala movies with no substance causing high acidity in your otherwise blissful life?

Worry no more, for the solution is right around the corner!

Maverick director, Shoojit Sircar of Vicky Donor fame is all set to bring the stalwarts of Indian cinema in the same frame to entertain you and make sure that all your motions and emotions are sorted. We’re talking about the upcoming movie, Piku starring doyen of Bollywood, Amitabh Bachchan with the number one actress of today, Deepika Padukone! And yes, to give them company is another mighty talented actor Irfan Khan, our hot export to Hollywood!

Piku’s Team

The trailer of the movie has just been released and going by it, it sure looks like a movie, which is out to touch your hearts and pull the right strings when it comes to emotions shared between a father and a daughter.

Add some situations and characters which are straight from real life and the final dish looks like a mouth-watering 6-course mean! No, we are not being biased about it just because it has big stars or anything, but the roughly 2-1/2 minute trailer does engage you beautifully bringing smiles, laughter and a kind of somberness that can only be experienced when movies with heart are made.

In this age of item songs and gravity-defying action scenes which also defy intelligence, it is such a delight to see a film being made which is about us, about the common man, about relations which we all feel and nurture day-in day-out of our lives.

Now it might also happen that only the trailer is exemplary and the movie falls flat on its face, but frankly enough, even that is permissible considering that we do have such filmmakers who experiment with their stories and stick their neck out even at the risk of losing all!

While Deepika is looking absolutely ravishing even without an iota of make-up, Big B once again proves why he is one of the most sought after actors in our country today.

Amitabh Bachchan in PIKU

Irfan with his unusual style of acting and screen presence just makes sure that no one can afford to miss this flick!

It may or may not do a business like Aamir Khan starrer Dhoom 3 or SRK starrer Happy New Year or apna Sallu bhai starrer Kick, but then money isn’t everything! After all, eating a famous, glamorous, but a bad dish and then running to doctors for stomach ailments is a bad idea!

Better to enjoy a simple meal which nourishes your mind, body and soul!

Watch the trailer and let us know if you also agree with this hygienic dish!

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