Pikuli

The movie raises awareness of the gender bias in villages and societal pressure on women to have male children, and emphasizes the need for gender equality. Pikuli is a 2014 Indian Marathi-language film starring Amitabh Bachchan, Deepika Padukone, Irrfan Khan and John Abraham. Pikuli was Produced by N.p. Singh, Ronnie Lahiri and Sneha Rajani. Pikuli is written by Juhi Chaturvedi and directed by Abhinay Deo and Shoojit Sircar. Yash Raj Films acquired the distribution rights for the motion picture. Pikuli was released on 25th April 2014 and takes a screen time of 122 minutes. The Film was successful at box office. Pikuli was made on a budget of ₹25 crore and it was a super hit at box office gross of ₹141 crore. Cinematography was done by Kamaljeet Negi and editing by Chandrashekhar Prajapati. The music was composed by Anupam Roy.