shoojit sircars film vicky donor touched hearts despite dealing with a quirky subject like sperm donation his upcoming film piku again in a quirky way will deal with a subject that is very important in each of our lives the topic of bowel movement and constipation but he has chosen to tell his story through the lives of an independent girl piku played by the most beautiful deepika padukone and her journey with her cranky hyper attentionseeking father baba played by indias finest actor amitabh bachchan piku is a performancebased film that is not just about the unconditional love between a daughter and her father but is progressive and hopes to make you talk to your parents about things we dont usually talk about shoojit sircar and his piku in an exclusive conversation with bombay times excerptsread deepika padukone films she rejected shoojits fulltime occupation is that of a father being a filmmaker is just a hobby deepika padukoneconversation with deepika padukonewhat is piku about juhi chaturvedi and he had come to narrate the script he narrated babas part and juhi narrated my part and literally i was like come lets start i am ready it has never happened to me so instantly before where i have got so excited about a script just the way he had spoken about sperm donation in vicky donor what drew me to the idea was how he talked about constipation in the film it didnt seem forced and yet there is so much to learn in the film about our bodies and lives given how important bowel movement and constipation are in our lives we usually just shy away from talking about it and only talk about it in a fun way but he has weaved it in so beautifully with the journey of piku with her father the chaos in her life her world right from the time she wakes up who like any independent woman needs to take care of her father rush to work take care of her home also be a dutiful friend and be able to come back in time for her babas medicines how does a girl like this get time for herself she is at a stage in her life where she now needs to take care of her father and give backdeepika padukone and shoojit sircarread amitabh bachchan lesser known facts how different is your father from bhaskar bannerjee name of the character played by amitabh bachchan prakash padukone is very different from bhaskar bannerjee in the film at every step of doing the film i would think uh thank god my dads not like this if i had a father like that in real life it would be really exhausting my dad is much younger fitter peaceful calm and grounded unlike baba and not cranky at all bhaskar is completely the opposite he is childlike and constantly wants attention and wants his daughter to be around him all the time not that my dad