Pihu Movie Review: A Two Year Old Girl Who Lands In Perilous Situation

During the course of 93 minutes, audiences have to see a two-year-old girl land in one perilous situation after another and hope that she comes out of it unharmed. That's the plot of Pihu which is inspired by a true story. Kapri sets the ball rolling in the opening credits using dialogues in the background against animated childlike drawing. It's Pihu's birthday party and there is cake, guests and young Pihu chattering. The first visual is of Pihu waking up early next morning alongside her mother. Only she is dead. The circumstances surrounding her death are revealed later.

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Pihu finds herself in peril as she tackles staircases, stools and sleeping pills. Pihu’s father is traveling, but frequently shows up in photographs around the house — one of which shows him receiving a Best Engineers Award — and several cute photographs with Pihu, none of which feature the mother. He calls up and talks to his wife and is apparently so driven to argue with her that he is unperturbed by her silence, and is so impassioned about fighting that he locks himself in an airplane bathroom in order to continue talking to her even as air-hostesses want the phone switched off. 

Things happen to young Pihu — played by an adorable Tweety-bird of a child, Myra Vishwakarma — but none of these appear dangerous, even though the filmmakers try their darnedest to amp up the horror and shoot geysers and irons as sinisterly as possible. In all fairness, the story does throw up a few nail-biting moments, too. But the inconsistent writing and direction by Vinod Kapri robs the movie of its desired impact. Pihu also attempts to show how easy it is to get lost in a crowded city but the situations here aren't as compelling.While the film is firm on its feet and even through its missteps, Myra Vishwakarma as Pihu remains incredible — is this a performance or is she just being herself? Perhaps a bit of both is what we must conclude from the director's interviews and considering that she has been credited for.