Directed by : Raju Hirani
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2338151/
Splendid 1st half, reminds of OMG in 2nd.. still a great Aamir-Hirani entertainer.
Read at your own risk, might contain some spoilers…
We always get plenty of entertaining movies (thanx to our mass audience) releasing every year. But, Hirani movies are often in the category of quality entertainers, ones which we enjoy and in very few scenes we could say - ‘kuch bhi’. Same happens in PK, infact 1st half is so hilarious that I can’t remember last movie which made me laugh so much.
The plot of PK deals with a alien PK (Aamir Khan) who lands on Earth, near Jaipur, Rajasthan, and his remote control which he would use to give signal back to his planet to take him back home, gets stolen by one of random guy. Now, PK has to survive on earth without any knowledge of how people live here, how they earn, whom they worship and many more stuffs.
Moments like dancing cars, Gandhi pics collection, fashion understanding (specially where he corrects the fashion of a barber), and different managers of religions… All these makes for a 1st half where you won’t stop laughing. Special mention to three wonderful scenes, one where PK has a conversation with a guy outside temple, other where he describes to Jaggu how a word on Earth has different meanings like ‘Accha’ in the manner they speak it, and lastly when he lands inside a church with a pooja ki thaali with reactions of ‘anarth about to happen’ along with loud bg.
Hirani has always kept a social message or so in his movies with a well thought of tag for it. It was ‘Jadoo ki jhappi’ in Munnabhai MBBS, ‘Gandhigiri’ in Lage Raho Munnabhai, ‘Aal Izz Well’ in 3 Idiots and now in PK he comes up with ‘Wrong Number’.
2nd half goes into the direction of OMG (comparison is inevitable). Hirani makes use of ‘Wrong Number’ to show how some managers of religion misuse belief of people in God to their own advantage. How we people prefer to use our money in worshipping instead of donating to a poor person and many other aspects of religion in our country is wonderfully put up by Hirani. In Oh My God too, we saw it but I would say OMG tried to show more of managers together against Paresh Rawal scenario, whereas in PK we see it as one to one battle where slowly people understand what PK is trying to say holds true.
In the last scene from flashback of PK in 1st half, I knew where the story would go now, and sadly that did make me feel ‘Oh no, we have already seen that’. Still, Hirani makes the 2nd half watchable though it has many flaws with it. Wish he had a different storyline though..
One of major drawbacks for me was PK-Jaggu (Anushka Sharma) romantic plot, he suddenly has a love feeling for her which was not required, he could still had played a very good friend who finds out she is heart-broken by Sarfaraz (Sushant Singh Rajput) and then try to re-unite them. Another flaw was the church scene, I agree that Jaggu had the wrong number in her mind that made her think the letter was by Sarfaraz and not care to call him even. But why would Sarfaraz not try to call either, that was plain stupid. They should had kept the separation of Jaggu-Sarfaraz in some other convincing manner.
Also, the scene where Jaggu calls Pakistan Embassy and all the reaction shots of people there looked so fake, maybe because Hirani never invested in the Sarfaraz story separately. And Hirani actually tried to do a Karan Johar KKHH moment where everyone from Jaggu to PK to Boman to Jaggu’s friend and others in the news debate place cries over the romantic story of Jaggu-Sarfaraz.
Liked the use of songs like ‘Tum toh thehre pardesi’ and ‘Aasmaan pe hai khuda’, they are so apt to the situations, the former is comical while latter very touchy.
I love ‘Love is a waste of time’ song, but it was forced into narrative trying to add to the unwanted romantic track. Sonu’s other song ‘Bhagwaan hai kahan re tu’ was very emotional one, and brilliantly sung, the visuals were one of main reasons why the song made a great impact on me. While 'Tharki Chokro' is good to watch dance moves of Aamir in alien style. Ankit Tiwari’s ‘Dar ba dar’ was a turn off for me, even though only one line of the song is used, still it felt like suddenly I landed into a Bhatt movie from Hirani, should had done away with a bg only. And lastly, it was very nice to hear Shaan’s voice after a long time in a pretty good track ‘Chaar kadam’.
Special mention to the PK theme, love the choreography of it where PK teaches Jaggu how to charge her battery or be happy when feeling low.
In performances, Aamir Khan makes me love him even in a Bhojpuri role so much, and I thought I would finally dislike him for a change in a movie.. but not to be. His looks at times do look odd, but his acting is always on the spot. Love the way he runs in alien manner, kudos to whosoever suggested it. And his comical timing is too good.
Anushka Sharma once again irritates, Bombay Velvet would be the last time when I would expect her to give a performance to be liked. The problem here once again is same, she overacts.
Saurabh Shukla, who plays Tapasvi Maharaj is brilliant, love the scene where he is introduced to us. I could so much connect to that, though Hirani overdid it slightly.
Sanjay Dutt is lovable in his small cameo as the Rajasthani guy, first friend of PK on earth.
Boman Irani is effective as always. While Sushant Singh Rajput in a 10 min role gets one worthy moment where he questions Jaggu that how uneasy she suddenly felt when he told her he was from Pakistan.
And there is a special appearance from a actor (you probably already know it) in the last scene of movie.
PK is a enjoyable entertainer despite some problems in 2nd half, it dares to talk a lot about our blind belief in God and how people like Tapasvi manipulate ordinary people to their advantage. Aamir-Hirani combo gives many special moments specially in 1st half that may stay for long in our memories for good.
Verdict : 3.5/5
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2338151/
Splendid 1st half, reminds of OMG in 2nd.. still a great Aamir-Hirani entertainer.
Read at your own risk, might contain some spoilers…
We always get plenty of entertaining movies (thanx to our mass audience) releasing every year. But, Hirani movies are often in the category of quality entertainers, ones which we enjoy and in very few scenes we could say - ‘kuch bhi’. Same happens in PK, infact 1st half is so hilarious that I can’t remember last movie which made me laugh so much.
The plot of PK deals with a alien PK (Aamir Khan) who lands on Earth, near Jaipur, Rajasthan, and his remote control which he would use to give signal back to his planet to take him back home, gets stolen by one of random guy. Now, PK has to survive on earth without any knowledge of how people live here, how they earn, whom they worship and many more stuffs.
Moments like dancing cars, Gandhi pics collection, fashion understanding (specially where he corrects the fashion of a barber), and different managers of religions… All these makes for a 1st half where you won’t stop laughing. Special mention to three wonderful scenes, one where PK has a conversation with a guy outside temple, other where he describes to Jaggu how a word on Earth has different meanings like ‘Accha’ in the manner they speak it, and lastly when he lands inside a church with a pooja ki thaali with reactions of ‘anarth about to happen’ along with loud bg.
Hirani has always kept a social message or so in his movies with a well thought of tag for it. It was ‘Jadoo ki jhappi’ in Munnabhai MBBS, ‘Gandhigiri’ in Lage Raho Munnabhai, ‘Aal Izz Well’ in 3 Idiots and now in PK he comes up with ‘Wrong Number’.
2nd half goes into the direction of OMG (comparison is inevitable). Hirani makes use of ‘Wrong Number’ to show how some managers of religion misuse belief of people in God to their own advantage. How we people prefer to use our money in worshipping instead of donating to a poor person and many other aspects of religion in our country is wonderfully put up by Hirani. In Oh My God too, we saw it but I would say OMG tried to show more of managers together against Paresh Rawal scenario, whereas in PK we see it as one to one battle where slowly people understand what PK is trying to say holds true.
In the last scene from flashback of PK in 1st half, I knew where the story would go now, and sadly that did make me feel ‘Oh no, we have already seen that’. Still, Hirani makes the 2nd half watchable though it has many flaws with it. Wish he had a different storyline though..
One of major drawbacks for me was PK-Jaggu (Anushka Sharma) romantic plot, he suddenly has a love feeling for her which was not required, he could still had played a very good friend who finds out she is heart-broken by Sarfaraz (Sushant Singh Rajput) and then try to re-unite them. Another flaw was the church scene, I agree that Jaggu had the wrong number in her mind that made her think the letter was by Sarfaraz and not care to call him even. But why would Sarfaraz not try to call either, that was plain stupid. They should had kept the separation of Jaggu-Sarfaraz in some other convincing manner.
Also, the scene where Jaggu calls Pakistan Embassy and all the reaction shots of people there looked so fake, maybe because Hirani never invested in the Sarfaraz story separately. And Hirani actually tried to do a Karan Johar KKHH moment where everyone from Jaggu to PK to Boman to Jaggu’s friend and others in the news debate place cries over the romantic story of Jaggu-Sarfaraz.
Liked the use of songs like ‘Tum toh thehre pardesi’ and ‘Aasmaan pe hai khuda’, they are so apt to the situations, the former is comical while latter very touchy.
I love ‘Love is a waste of time’ song, but it was forced into narrative trying to add to the unwanted romantic track. Sonu’s other song ‘Bhagwaan hai kahan re tu’ was very emotional one, and brilliantly sung, the visuals were one of main reasons why the song made a great impact on me. While 'Tharki Chokro' is good to watch dance moves of Aamir in alien style. Ankit Tiwari’s ‘Dar ba dar’ was a turn off for me, even though only one line of the song is used, still it felt like suddenly I landed into a Bhatt movie from Hirani, should had done away with a bg only. And lastly, it was very nice to hear Shaan’s voice after a long time in a pretty good track ‘Chaar kadam’.
Special mention to the PK theme, love the choreography of it where PK teaches Jaggu how to charge her battery or be happy when feeling low.
In performances, Aamir Khan makes me love him even in a Bhojpuri role so much, and I thought I would finally dislike him for a change in a movie.. but not to be. His looks at times do look odd, but his acting is always on the spot. Love the way he runs in alien manner, kudos to whosoever suggested it. And his comical timing is too good.
Anushka Sharma once again irritates, Bombay Velvet would be the last time when I would expect her to give a performance to be liked. The problem here once again is same, she overacts.
Saurabh Shukla, who plays Tapasvi Maharaj is brilliant, love the scene where he is introduced to us. I could so much connect to that, though Hirani overdid it slightly.
Sanjay Dutt is lovable in his small cameo as the Rajasthani guy, first friend of PK on earth.
Boman Irani is effective as always. While Sushant Singh Rajput in a 10 min role gets one worthy moment where he questions Jaggu that how uneasy she suddenly felt when he told her he was from Pakistan.
And there is a special appearance from a actor (you probably already know it) in the last scene of movie.
PK is a enjoyable entertainer despite some problems in 2nd half, it dares to talk a lot about our blind belief in God and how people like Tapasvi manipulate ordinary people to their advantage. Aamir-Hirani combo gives many special moments specially in 1st half that may stay for long in our memories for good.
Verdict : 3.5/5
