A Two-year-old girl. Home alone. What could go wrong? Every parent's worst nightmare...
Based on an unbelievably true story, here's the #Pihu Review.
Written & Directed By: Vinod Kapri
Produced By: Ronnie Screwvala, Siddharth Roy Kapur & Shilpa Jindal
Cast: Myra, Vishwakarma, Prerna Sharma
Co-Producers: Sakshi Joshi, Shalini Bindra, Prashant Sarin
Associate Director: Ambujeshwar Pandey
Editor: Irene Dhar Malik, Sheeba Sehgal & Archit D Rastogi
Cinematography: Yogesh Jaini
Music: Vishal Khurana
Production Designer: Ashim Chakraborty
Costume Stylist & Make-up Artist: Prerna Sharma & Sonia Saini
Pihu is a 2018 Indian drama thriller film written and directed by Vinod Kapri and jointly produced by Ronnie Screwvala, Siddharth Roy Kapur and Shilpa Jindal.It stars Myra, a two year old girl, in the title role, who gets trapped inside her house with no escape. Pihu was premiered at the 2017 International Film Festival of India in the Panorama section and was screened at the Fajr International Film Festival. It won the Grand Prize for Best Feature Film in the International Competition category and the People's Choice award for Best Film at the 14th Trans-Saharan International Film FestivalThe film's official trailer was released on 24 October 2018, and was released theatrically on 16 November 2018.
Average Ratings:2.47/5
Pihu Ratings {3/5}
A woman is seen lying unconscious on the bed. Meanwhile, a two-year old toddler, Pihu (Myra Vishwakarma) believes that her mummy is sleeping and tries to go about with her daily routine. She tries to wake her up, switches on the microwave when the hunger pangs strike and even gets herself trapped in the refrigerator. Pihu gives you many such heart-thumping moments. The situations in the film are every parent's worst nightmares.
Pihu has received accolades at various international film festivals. It was selected as an official entry for prestigious international film festivals which include Vancouver, Palm springs, Iran, Morocco, and Germany. It also went on to win 'Best Film' at Morocco. It was also the opening film at India's biggest film festival - International Film Festival of India, Goa (2017) where it received rave reviews. The movie is based on true events.
REVIEW
What does a little child do when taken off alone in the house? Notwithstanding for individuals who may not be guardians, the idea itself is greatly troubling. Let's be honest: we as a whole have had that a scary sentiment of getting caught in shut spots, be it a lift, a room or any loft with nobody acting the hero. The alarming idea would terrify the daylights of some generally certain and flawlessly fine people. It's considerably scarier on the off chance that it is a two-year old tyke stuck in a comparable circumstance.
The social spine chiller Pihu coordinated by Vinod Kapri is around a two-year child young lady, who is discovered living in a home when the other two grown-ups in the family — her folks — are experiencing a convoluted period of their conjugal life. Before you make a hasty judgment about the closeness between this film and the Hollywood film Home Alone arrangement, given me a chance to clarify that there is no similitude between the two.
Why just a youngster, numerous among the grown-ups as well, don't appear to be exceptionally open to remaining independent from anyone else, that as well, for a long term. Regardless of whether you are not, watching a film with only a youngster as the hero may not be your most loved approach to get engaged. All through, you will feel fretful, restless, frightened, unnerved and now and again, exhausted notwithstanding when you are on tenterhooks viewing a couple of scenes wherein the little child erroneously bolts herself inside an icebox; or turns on the gas barrel; strolls around the house with broken bits of glass strewn, or hazardously inclining from the patio.
Whenever Pihu (Myra Vishkarma) gets up one morning in one of the skyscraper lofts in Uttar Pradesh, she is neglectful of what is in store for her: her mom (Prerna Sharma) lies unmoving on quaint little inn father continues making phonecalls while he is en route to the air terminal to go to a gathering in Kolkata, and for the duration of the time, he is away. There are not a single different characters in sight; only a couple of arbitrary voices heard-some from the gallery and neighborhood. As Pihu is seen meandering around the house for satisfying her needs: from searching for drain and sustenance things for survival while from the start attempting urgently to awaken her mom, who she accepts, has been dozing, she coasts through different spots easily as you hold your breath and sit tight for her move beyond some dangerous, and frequently hazardous conditions.
Your enthusiasm for her bends over when you watch this heavenly adorable young lady attempting to continue ahead with life's startling turns, and think about whether she knows that the camera is moving through. In any case, inevitably, her cherubic blamelessness wears you off, for no blame of hers however. What tires you is the 93 minutes of a film that declines to proceed onward. Hopefully, I nearly envisioned that something was en route, making me hold up with on edge anxiety what might happen to her.
What's more, when I got hindered by the ringing of the versatile and heard her dad's voice, it got be a small piece energized once more. Be that as it may, it ended up being a vain pause: the film, similar to its lead tyke, looks bound to a constrained plot with valuable little variety. Normally, similar to me, all of you would likewise be baffled.
Over and over, it has been demonstrated that unimportant ideation of an extraordinary film doesn't make a drawing in story.
Executive Kapri has asserted that the story depends on a genuine occurrence that he is aware of. There are reports that a New York based report could be the trigger for its fundamental start. Whatever be the source, you don't consider the thought odd or something that is probably not going to occur. All you wish that regardless of having a standout amongst the most charming and loveable tyke performing artists, Pihu doesn't push ahead.
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