Piku

Synopsis: A quirky comedy about the relationship between a daughter and her aging father, whose eccentricities drive everyone crazy.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Shoojit Sircar
Production: Yash Raj Films
  18 wins & 9 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
NOT RATED
Year:
2015
123 min
$1,801,806
Website
6,773 Views


Budhan, the laundry boy would have come

and cut the fruits and keep.

All I am saying dad...

...just go and sit on the pot...

...it'll happen.

But I am still not

feeling the pressure...

Count these.

Hey Budhan!

Why didn't you give me black currant

with my milk last night? -Of course I gave.

This walking around won't help you...

...just go and sit on the pot.

I know my system better or you?

Budhan...

...make a note of 19

clothes in the diary...

You're still here baba?

It won't happen...just

because you're saying!

It will...l say so! Go and try.

It won't!

All right then!

You just don't want

to listen to anyone...

...breakfast is here...eat

it...after you're done.

Look... | know that 'potty' feeling...

...just yesterday I sat

on the pot for an hour.

Please dad...no point

I'm already late for work.

Give me the list..

Listen Piku...

Piku..

Call me before lunch...

You're late again...

Ivladamji I've been waiting

here for 20 minutes.

So am I lying then?

No madamji.

- Move now.

- Yes ma'am.

Fast.

- Yes ma'am.

Madamji, madamji sir won't spare me...

Tell your owner... l don't

need your taxi from tomorrow.

All they know is how to fleece you.

Send a cup of tea inside.

Sure sir.

Reema... PPT.

Yes sir.

Client is here.

- Yes I know I'm late.

Piku just try not to argue today.

Look. I can't stand like a beggar

in front of the client...

...I like to speak my mind.

If you've issues with that then I

am happy to not attend this meeting.

You are meeting Aniket for lunch.

Come on yaar...

Not him.

He's a jerk!

You can't be so desperate.

I am so...

Shall we?

Syed... Kept it inside.

See I get your point...but my driver

was just trying to save the other car...

...so he turned left...

..you were coming from behind...

in speed...naturally...it banged...

Your driver was speeding!

He hit and ran away...so

how's this natural?

Sir, Piku madamji had said...

Stay quiet,

what else could this poor man have done?

Who would cause an

accident intentionally?

Now where did this dent come from?

This one here...

That was another lady driver

but that's not the point...

Oh really?

Why do accidents happen with you only?

Look don't deviate...

Why is it always that

the guy in front is at fault?

All I know that he has broken this...

Oh hello..settle it or it's

a sure case of 'hit and run'...

Exactly.

You can't be so safe with the

designs otherwise there is no point.

- Yeah...

- Sorry, sir.

Ma'am, your father.

What happened?

There's a message from him.

Read it...

Read it quickly.

"..day before I

had Semi liquid motion...

...since then constipation and gas...

What should I do?"

Will you say something?

I am talking to you.

lam talking to you.

"Semi liquid motion first.

Then 2 days of gas and constipation.

What should I do?"

What kind of a message is this

to leave at an office?

Why?

I think its a serious health issue...

...and we should discuss it.

We could've discussed at home?

We live in the same house.

But you said you didn't

want to talk to me...

Fine...you could've sent me a text?

Why did you give it

to the Receptionist?

But just this morning you said

you didn't want to talk to me!

Didn't you say that?

This morning dad...

I've kept the lunch on the

table and I've have made Grand Pa's dish.

My dish? Or 'Moong pulses' dish?

Son of a pig!

Just go and keep lunch on the table...

On the Table?

What else did I say?

So I said the same...table...

Dad, in the middle of my...

Hey you better have

not put salt in my food...

Well how could l?

you hid it again today.

Open a new packet.

Greasing is good for motion..

Dad stop being so..difficult...

...from last two days not

a single piece has come out!

I don't want to die of constipation!

No one dies of constipation.

Elvis Presley did..

Don't look at me like that...

...his body was found

in the bathroom...obviously...

...he must've been

sitting on the commode.

Didn't you keep the

yogurt in the fridge?

It's gone sour...

Look Piku none of

my problems are small.

When you'll be my age,

you'll understand.

I don't want to get to your age...

You have problems

everywhere in your body.

Imaginary.

Imaginary?

Then..see this.

- What?

See.

Haemoglobin 15...

normal.

Urine test normal.

Diabetes negative. kidney

function normal ECG normal.

Budhan!

When did these reports come?

And why did you give it to her?

That's not the point Dad.

Srivastav uncle asked

for blood Count ONLY.

Then why did you

get these extra tests done'?

So there's nothing in the report?

Look at your face...everything

is normal but you are not happy.

Really, things will be better

off if something comes out.

Didney or lung or

diabetes or something...

At least then there will

a solution to this house.

Look, I've given you full freedom.

Don't talk to me like that.

What freedom?

I had to meet Aniket today

for lunch but I am here. With you.

Is this how I am going to

lead my life? discussing your sh*t?!

Don't bring my sh*t in between. Don't.

And this your relationship status.

Yeah Syed.

If you ask me,

I think casual is fine...

...that works for me.

He's just all the time

imagining, hypochondriac.

What for have you come now?

I want to talk to madam.

She's not here... go away.

I know she's inside..

I told you she isn't, go!

- Dad?

Why are you so late today?

I've fired her, she

wont work for us anymore...

I've left this job myself, give

me my clues and I'll leave...

There is nothing due...

Dad please.

Did he say something?

When I mop the floor...

...he walks behind me

with his dirty shoes...

...checking the room as

if I'll steal something...

So so?

What is so wrong in that?

Three times a day I clean the

toilet and he's still not satisfied.

And today he crossed the limits, he

said I've stolen the toilet cleaner.

You think I'll do that?

Then where did it go?

- One minute, dad.

- Did I drink it up?

Nonsense.

She's talking nonsense.

Look he didn't mean that...

No he's suspecting me all the

time...just pay my dues and I'll leave.

I told you there's

no balance... Fine Piku...

...inside that drawer I've

kept eight hundred and fifty rupees.

She didn't turn up for three

days... I've deducted that...

See he's deducted three days salary...

Obviously...

...you didn't turn up on Sunday and Monday

and third day you went for a movie...

Dad please

No madam I was unwell...

- Keep your salary.

Don't clean the toilets

from tomorrow. I'll do that...

Take couple of days off

and think with a cool head.

Day off?

What are you doing Piku?

Keep quiet Dad.

No no I know this lady...

- Dad shut up.

Let it be...whichever house

you get married in, I'll work there...

...but here...but till

the time he's here...

Till the time?

What do you mean till the time?

I'll be here forever... and even she...

You go. You go from here.

Yeah even I am not interested

in working here... - Go!

Goes on and on and on. No

one is going to give you a job...

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Juhi Chaturvedi

Juhi Chaturvedi (born 1975) is an Indian screenwriter and advertising professional based in Mumbai. Chaturvedi has written scripts for Bollywood films Vicky Donor (2012) Piku (2015),and October (2018).She won the 2013 Filmfare Award for Best Story for Vicky Donor (2012), the National Film Award for Best Original Screenplay and Best Dialogues and the 2016 Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay for Piku (2015). more…

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