When I first saw Sarfarosh when I was young, I was immensely
thrilled and started liking Aamir Khan. Known as Mr. Perfect in making his films.
Whether it be Lagaan, Taare Jameen par, 3Idiots.. liked his every movie and one
can say he is best of Khans in choosing the scripts. At the same time was in awe
for the Rajkumar Hirani’s Munnabhai series. Naturally had lot of expectations
when the duo are coming back as PK.
Story: An alien (Aamir) is dropped in the desert by a
spaceship to research the life on earth. But immediately his valuable
transmitter is being snatched by a thief. Now he has no way to call back his
spaceship. So he goes in search of it. People suggest that, only God could save
him. And now this alien known as PK, starts searching God. He gets confused
with several religions and keeps questioning the Rituals mostly of Hindus. Good
thing he exposes a fake sadhu in his journey. And finally somehow connects this
to a love story of a Hindu girl(Anushka) and a Pakistani Muslim boy(Sushanth).
Why PK not OK…
Rituals in a religion has their significance and few date
back to the social events in the past.
When PK questions why people pray to idols. I remember one
thing. On Independence Day and Republic day, we do Flag hoisting and salute to
the Indian Flag. Are we saluting to a Pole and a cloth or are we saluting to
our motherland? He makes all fuss in temple and breaks coconut in a church..
But why is he stopped on streets itself, before he entering into mosque with
the wine bottles?
Is there no better place for the director to showcase the
encounter of PK with Lord Shiva than a restroom? And after the famous chasing
of Lord shiva on streets, he announces on stage that he met the God in the
Restroom. In a country, where many throw money on lavish parties, I could not
first comment on few pints of milk used for Abhishekam and I neither support it
too.
Questioning the fake sadhu and the concept of “Wrong Numbers”
is perfect and had the entire movie on same lines, I would have filled all
these paragraphs with praises on Aamir’s acting. But Atleast Sadhus don’t preach
on killing innocent in the name of Religion.
The same questioning in OMG was never falsified... the intent of questioning is wrong here.
After watching all this, the enlightenment via a love story
where the Boy calls the embassy every day at 9 for this girl too had some wrong
signals and felt funnier than the gravity defying fight sequences in Dhoom3.
Powerful yet dumb Alien!!
PK represents a powerful alien, who can grab the entire
language and read the mind by holding the hands of a person. And he comes in a
space ship. So as we know the potential of his race, Can he not understand the significance
of currency? As he foolishly brings in all notebooks, posters printed with
Gandhi’s image for buying vegetables!!!! I really wonder how could a planet
which had spaceships had no clothes??
Problem one has with PK is its partiality and mockery of
ones belief without complete knowledge. There are many ways of enlightening
people and PK took the wrong way. There are several other ways a movie on integrity
of nation can be made. Doesn’t we love Maniratnam’s “Mumbai” ? While Kamal hassan had so many
troubles bringing out Viswaroopam, Aamir cleared the censor simple and minting
crores.
By the way .pk is the Internet country code top-level domain
(ccTLD) for Pakistan. Like we use .in for some of our websites, edu.pk, org.pk
are used by educational institutes/ non-profit organizations in Pakistan (Please
refer to the Wiki of PK). Whatever it is
Aamir lost a fan with his PK is what all I could say.
0/5
Awesome review chakri. Each word u said is right n even I felt d same. They would have taken little more care of scripting or choosen different way to show d same content.
ReplyDeleteNot just one fan but me too...
ReplyDeleteI have not watched this movie yet but i can understand your frustration and unhappiness.
ReplyDeleteNice Review Chakri... you just penned all my feelings there, thanks heaps
ReplyDeletefunny and bais write up
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