Idle musings

    My mother, her brother, my wife and I watched "Piku", the Hindi movie on the morning of 17-May-15. This blog post is my review of the movie.     I think I will begin with the major shortcoming of the movie, as I see it. In a sentence: there is not much of a story in the movie.     Amitabh Bachchan plays Bhashkor Bannerjee, a 70-year old man suffering from constipation. Deepika Padukone acts as his daughter, the eponymous Piku. Piku is devoted to her father and is single. Balendra Singh is Budhan, the caretaker for the family and Bhashkor's personal attendant, in particular. They set out on a trip to their home town from Kolkata with the owner of a taxi company Rana Chaudhary, played by Irrfan Khan. Essentially, the story is about how Piku's life revolves around her father and his (perceived) ailments and quirks of old age. Just incidentally, Rana is drawn into Bhashkor's struggle to achieve "good motion" and becomes sympathetic to Piku. The sympathy