Pihu
*ing: Myra Vishwakarma
Rated: 4/10
What genre is this one? Horror? Not really though the entire film and the situation it puts a little child into makes you squirm.
The opening credits tell you that the film is based on a true story. Apparently something so horrific happened somewhere in Ghaziabad years ago. On screen, it is equally so. Cherubic girl child Pihu brings your heart into your mouth by roaming around in a deserted house with her mother lying dead on the bed and she being far removed from the entire concept of a life end. On her part, Myra who plays Pihu tugs at your heart with all her unguarded moments, which incidentally are many. But the situation she is in gets you. It is eerie, it is highly uncomfortable and it makes you feel the need to somehow, anyhow end her predicament even though she is least aware of the fact that her mother is not sleeping but lying dead on the bed after a bad bout with her husband who has since left for Kolkata.
Vinod Kapri and Sidharth Roy Kapoor may think this one to be a creative and sensitive film but purely from the point of view of cinema, it is monotonous, stretched and needless. Seeing such harsh realities of life through a child so tender comes across as a bad page of emotional porn.
Myra though is brilliant, thanks to excellent camera work. One can see hours being spent to capture her moods.