Although “Piku” keeps you in “motion” for two hours plus, it is one of the most entertaining and enjoyable rides about life’s fundamental needs, which you will thoroughly enjoy!

It takes the most ordinary situations from daily life and churns out the kind of drama that’s missing from modern mainstream cinema. There’s a deftness to its emotions. There’s a purpose to every point in the film. Even though this isn’t toilet humour, you have grown adults constantly talking about feces and digestive ailments. It could all put you off. Instead, it draws you in. That’s the hallmark of great cinema. It effortlessly speaks to its audience. It creates magical moments with the most unlikely situations. This one’s definitely to be watched with your family, especially your parents.

Piku falls short of being a masterpiece due to too much focus on motion and not enough on emotion. Nevertheless it is a cute little film that deserves a watch. Go for it!

Piku is a movie that urges one to approach life with healthy amounts of levity. It isn’t perfect, sure, but it achieves the unique distinction of being a crowd-pleaser while spending a considerable amount of screen-time talking about Things You Don’t Talk About, Ever.

It’s only after stepping into Piku’s quirky world that we witness the brilliance of Shoojit’s craftsmanship.

How he uses bowel movements to weave together a touching tale about family love, without ever employing cheap thrills or melodrama, is remarkable.

Piku glides over all of these heavy-duty themes with breezy lightness and consistent, well-timed comedy. This is a road trip movie after all, and it’s got hysterical, rapid-fire montage of cuts of the back and forth between the trio of Piku, Bhaskkor and Rana. The teeny bit of melodrama is handled beautifully by shuffling laughs and tears together like a pack of cards, making Piku one of the more emotionally honest films to have come from the industry.

Sircar’s Piku is khoob bhalo jhaalmuri. Go eat. Digestion guaranteed.

…has sectional appeal only. It is entertaining and very different from the usual commercial films but it will be loved by only the class audience and will, therefore, score in good multiplexes, mainly in the cities. But business in lesser multiplexes, single-screen cinemas and smaller centres will be low as the masses will not take to the drama. Its business will fall quite short of the investment made in the film. Release of one big film almost every week now will be a major factor to greatly limit the film’s box-office prospects.

A worthwhile road movie despite an over-reliance on toilet humour…

Do watch this one, more so, if you are a Bengali. I bet you won’t stop smiling for most of the two plus hour duration.

…is a simple and funny movie which offers you a chance to get entertained with your entire family, as you don’t have to fear about any adult content popping up.