2015 · comedy · drama
Piku
Directed by Shoojit Sircar2h 3m2015
A taxi driver is caught between a dysfunctional relationship between a woman and her father as he drives them to Kolkata.
Our read: Piku (2015) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- warm
- tender
- intimate
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“You want a Kolkata road trip, impossible father, and gentle romance through everyday chaos.”
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