Actress Deepika Padukone, who is all set for her forthcoming family drama “Piku”, believes there is a little bit of the characteristics of her titular character in everyone.
The ‘Happy New Year’ star believes the film is relatable not just for the Indian audience, but for the international viewers as well.
“As a character and a film, it’s extremely relatable not just to an Indian audience, but globally as well. ‘Piku’ is a beautiful, quirky take on a father-daughter relationship and tells the tale of how we begin taking care of our parents as they get older.
“The film is titled ‘Piku’ because it focuses on her life and follows her journey — trying to multi-task at work, family and her social life. I believe there’s a little bit of Piku in all of us,” Deepika said in a statement.
Sharing her experience working with co-stars Amitabh Bachchan and Irrfan Khan, she said: “Amit ji and I have worked before as well but I enjoyed working with him this time a lot more. I really value the experience.
“Irrfan is an amazing talent, and I feel very fortunate to work with both of them.”
The 29-year-old actress along with co-star Irrfan and director Shoojit Sircar unveiled the ‘Piku Melange Collection’ earlier this week. It is an ethnic fusion collection from Melange by clothing brand Lifestyle.
Talking about the collection, she said: “The collection is inspired by Piku’s look in the movie. I think every woman is going to identify with the look. There are a lot of palazzo pants, easy stuff — someone who wears this stuff will look stylish and stand out while at the same time being absolutely comfortable.”
Deepika believes her character’s style in the film will turn out to be iconic.
“As women, we get to look different in our movies and leave these looks behind as a trend — like the iconic Sadhana cut. So hopefully when people see the film, Piku’s look will turn out to be as iconic,” she said.
Produced by MSM Motion Pictures, Saraswati Entertainment and Rising Sun Films and distributed worldwide by YRF, “Piku” will release worldwide on May 8.
Waiting for it!! Piku will do well..should be a must watch.
Its a Deepika’s movie so according to Salmanians logic PIKU should be 200+ cr movie.
hmmm Lots of Fun
GABBAR is Back Review
AKSHAY REDEFINES SUPERHERO
‘Let’s give the drivel’ its due. Films about heroes
who harangue and punish the corrupt go back to
the time when Guru Dutt turned his back on a
hopeless humanity in “Pyaasa”. Since then,
corruption has grown epidemic. And so have films
on the theme.
What sets “Gabbar is Back” apart in the genre is
its unabashedly massy tone. Here is a film about
a man who decides to take charge of a social
order on the brink of anarchy when all the formal
faculties fail. He doesn’t believe in reprimanding
the corrupt. He believes in punishing them with
death.
So, we have bribe-happy district collectors and
other law enforcers hanging limp on trees and
hoardings.
Ouch!
Yup, this Gabbar means business. And to the
character’s good fortune, he is played by the very
watchable Akshay Kumar. For my money and
time, Akshay is by far the most complete star-
actor package among contemporary A-lister
heroes in Bollywood. The way in which he delivers
his lines on the rampancy of corruption, his
demeanour and his wry detached disdain for the
corrupt, are all brought to the surface with a
forceful equilibrium constantly at play.
This is a star-actor at the pinnacle of his power.
Akshay exudes the kind of understated confidence
while delivering lines about a corrupt-free nation,
that requires a lot of sang-froid, inner conviction
and most important of all, an audience that
would believe in the hero’s convictions.
With due respect, none of the other A-lister
superstars of Bollywood have the power to sway
the masses with idealistic rhetoric. It’s in his
eyes. Akshay makes you sit up and listen without
raising his voice. To his good fortune, in
“Gabbar…”, he gets lines about a Swachh Bharat
that are compelling rather than corny. The lines
flow with furious passion without getting
swamped in a bombast. That’s a near-miraculous
achievement in a film which is designed as a
high-octane melodrama with every sequence
punctuated by elaborate background acoustics
(Sandeep Chowta).
Rajat Arora’s dialogues are Akshay Kumar’s
biggest support system here. Director Krish,
known down south for fashioning flamboyant
fables, here exercises unexpected restraint when
one least expects it. This is where this film about
a self-appointed anti-corruption vigilante scores.
It taps Akshay Kumar’s spiritual energy and
harnesses it at key points of the narrative to
underscore rather than over-punctuate the theme
of corruption.
By the time Akshay’s Man Of The Masses gets to
the climax on top of a car to deliver a rousing
speech on youth power, the narrative is perfectly
attuned to its leading man’s monkish equilibrium
and how it can be projected outwards to convey
the angst of a wounded ravaged civilisation. Even
when the arch-villain, an unscrupulous builder
played with operatic gusto by Suman Talwar is
busy hamming it up to the hilt, Akshay maintains
his attitude of detached contempt.
Baatein kam, ‘calm’ zyadaa!
Thank God for Akshay Kumar. The screenplay
would otherwise have been more of scream-play.
The characters and the twists and turns in the lot
constantly scream for attention. The exception
besides Akshay is Sunil Grover. Known as the
drag queen Gutthi on Kapil Sharma’s comedy
show, Sunil playing a low-rank police constable in
a police station filled with officers who are more
bothered with the chutney for their plates of
samosa than the collapse of the law and order
and situation, epitomises India’s smothered voice
of the conscience.
It’s such sudden spurts of sensitivity that redeem
what would otherwise have been just another
loud, boorish and garish film about corruption in
high-rise places. Builders are the baddies here,
you see.
Jaideep Ahlawat, usually so riveting on screen,
here seems uncomfortable in his suited avatar as
a CBI officer. His belated entry should have done
to the narrative what Nawazuddin Siddiqui did to
“Kahaani”.
No such luck. The villains are all clumsy
cardboard cut-outs conveying the corrupt element
with as much subtlety as an uncovered sewage.
The women are sketchily portrayed. Shruti
Haasan bustles in and out playing a lawyer who
is busy delivering homilies and babies on the
streets rather than fighting cases. Chitrangda
pops up to do an awful item song, best left edited
out. And Kareena Kapoor Khan, looking like a
zillion bucks (so what’s new), sings a romantic
song with Akshay and perishes in a clumsily
staged building collapse.
Luckily, the film survives to tell a tale that’s as
relevant today as it was when Kamal Haasan, all
dressed up in wizened prosthetics blew the lid off
governmental corruption in “Hindustani”.
“Gabbar Is Back” knocks the bottom off the action
genre with a breathless ode to Swachh Bharat.
The film may appear louder-than-life to the
dainty-hearted. But the tone is unapologetic
massy. You can’t change the disintegrating social
order by being subtle.
Miraculously, Akshay Kumar does exactly that.
Don’t ask how. Just go for his bearded, brooding
leadership qualities. Swachh Bharat needs such a
hero.
Waiting for the movie only bcoz of Irrfaan
Sorry! Deepika! i will skip piku becoz bombay velvet is coming on may 12
Classic vintage music revisited with bombay velvet
amit trivedi Rocks!
#addicted to mohabt buri bimari#
bad days for deepika..high hope. HNY was crappy , then she made fun of herself in women empowement video.. now flop piku… finding fanny dnt work as expected…
becoming no 1 can be easy… but to stay there ..u need real ability..
Should be a good film but will be a low grosser (could be a hit if budget is low) like all other female centric films.
Pikoo and bombay velvet looks like solid products
trailer is good..amitabh n irrfan are among the greatest actors… dp in the titular character is ok.
but it will not gross more than 50 crs
Piku hit
Bv flop becoz of bad trailer music
@ sallu and aamir fans were saying that hny and chennai express collected 200 crore plus. it waz becoz of deepika ! ??
now what will u say ? will piku collect 200 crore ? u haters only can give excuse lol.
afterall, it is our bhai fans logic lolssss!?
piku — lifetime 260 crore becoz of deepika in it ????
if it earns less than 50 crore, will give another excuse…. !!! they are az illiterate
az their bhai.?
good luck deepika for piku