Pikoo

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Movie
Original title পিকু
(Pikoo)
Country of production India
original language Bengali
Publishing year 1980
length 26 minutes
Rod
Director Satyajit Ray
script Satyajit Ray
production Henri Fraise
music Satyajit Ray
camera Soumendu Roy
cut Dulal Dutta
occupation

Pikoo ( Bengali পিকু Piku ) is an Indian short film by Satyajit Ray from 1980. The film was based on Ray's short story Pikur Diari .

action

The boy Pikoo lives in a family of the Bengali upper class with his parents and his bedridden grandfather. When the father leaves the house in the morning, he casually asks his wife if her lover will come because he had found strange hair on his pillow. The son Pikoo stays at home because he has no school. He is alone in the house doing marbles and cycling. Then he visits his bedridden grandfather who has a heart condition. He tells him about his mother's argument with his father. Then he watches a servant eating and calls random numbers from the house phone.

Uncle Hitesh, his mother's lover, comes by and brings Pikoo new felt-tip pens as a present. His mother suggests that he go into the garden and paint flowers. Pikoo leaves and Seema disappears into the bedroom with Hitesh. She tells Hitesh that her husband has become suspicious. When the curtains are closed, she watches her son crouching in front of the flowers in the garden. She cries because of her behavior towards Pikoo. Hitesh says he wouldn't have come if he had known.

Pikoo is always looking for new flowers while his grandfather dies. From the garden he calls out to his mother, who is lying naked in bed with Hitesh: "I don't have a white pencil, I paint the white flower with black". A raindrop falls on his leaf and he returns to the house.

Pikoo hears his mother arguing with Hitesh in the bedroom and then goes to his grandfather, who is now dead. He sits crying on the porch and paints another flower.

background

While filming Hirak Rajar Deshe, Ray received an offer from freelance producer Henri Fraise to make a film of his choice for French television FR3 . Ray chose one of his own stories from the perspective of an unsuspecting child.

Ashoke Bose was the production designer . Ray's son Sandip Ray was also involved in the production as an assistant.

literature

  • Section on Pikoo in Andrew Robinson: Satyajit Ray - The Inner Eye , Revised Edition 2004, pp. 253-256
  • Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , New Delhi 1999, p. 448

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