From Piku to Bhoomi, a look at some of the best father-daughter relationships on screen
Be it Anupam Kher and Pooja Bhatt in 1989’s Daddy or Sanjay Dutt and Aditi Rao Hydari in 2017’s Bhoomi, Bollywood has seen some of the most endearing father-daughter relationships on celluloid.
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In 1989, Mahesh Bhatt presented Bollywood one of its most touching stories, Daddy. Starring Pooja Bhatt and Anupam Kher, Daddy was the story of a daughter who decides to help her father get rid of alcoholism with her innocent and unconditional love towards him. Image courtesy: YouTube screengrab.
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The year 1997 saw Tamil superstar Kamal Haasan donning the look of an old nanny in Chachi 420. The film was directed by Haasan himself and stars Haasan, Tabu, Amrish Puri and the Dangal actress Fatima Sana Shaikh. Chachi 420 was a film about a divorced dad’s longing to be around his daughter and in turn, present a hilarious laugh-riot. Image courtesy: YouTube screengrab
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The very next year, in 1998, Karan Johar arrived in Bollywood with his film, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. While the film was around the love triangle between Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Rani Mukherji; it was Sana Saeed’s phenomenal performance as Shah Rukh’s daughter that held the story together. That was also the arrival of modern-day cool dad-daughter relationship which was more about being friends. Image courtesy: YouTube screengrab.
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Shoojit Sircar’s 2015 film Piku, brought alive a Bengali household where a career-centric daughter lives with her aging father who suffers from chronic hypochondria. In this tale of motion-obsession, Sircar touched every heart with the unspoken, understood and the innate bond between Amitabh Bachchan and his on-screen daughter Deepika Padukone. Image courtesy: YouTube screengrab.
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Omung Kumar’s 2017 film, Bhoomi, presents the protective dashing dad who would do anything for his daughter’s sake. The film is touted to be a revenge drama and features Sanjay Dutt and Aditi Rao Hydari in the role of a father and a daughter. Image courtesy: YouTube screengrab.
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