I believe, Aamir Khan is a good actor and yes, he knows very well how to make return most of his investment. I doubt if I have missed any of his movies (I am not a great movie fan, but take interest in few of the Bollywood's movie- possibly 1 or 2 in a year). Yes, I believe, out of all the movies being produced in Bollywood, only these numbers are worth. Yes, PK is also in the list.
Please do not think that I am a big Amir Khan fan so writing this article in his support. I am expressing the facts only.
Recently, I wrote something on twitter and someone reacted foolishly. His reaction was full of stupidity and the lines were seeming mostly taken from the movie itself. He had no backing or answer for his agitation. I thought to express then through an article.
What is PK movie all about?
The movie is more logical and may look like an atheist. Being atheist is actually knowing the true God. At least I believe so. Because, an atheist can reject many unwanted things. I still believe, we and the n number of galaxies in the world. The PK is all about the similar things. It is not an anti Hindu or anti religion movie. It is about all those who have made religion a business. It is about the product call religion and their manager, you can take any name- Asaram, Ravi Shankar, Ramdev, Aniruddha, Narendra, VHP, Laden, those Christian preacher who are promising heavens, the business house like Shirdi temple, Tirupati Balaji temple, those jyotishis and Gurus everything. It simply tell us to be logical and apply our mind. The truth is beyond what we see and feel.
What you should not expect from PK: You should not expect anything different. It is actually a softer version of Paresh Rawal starrer Oh My God.
in fact, Oh My God was a tougher attack on such religious shops, it did not leave anybody, any religion. However, although PK seems to be attacking all religion, it more focussed on attacking a religious leader of actress "Jaggu's" father as she is a Hindu. I felt the movie is whole copy of "Oh My God" with few changes in the script. PK earned more money than Oh My God as Amir Khan was in PK and Paresh Rawal was protagonist in Oh My God. Naturally, the star cast matters otherwise, "Oh My God" was far better than PK. The story has nothing new.
Major points the PK raise
Well, like "Oh My God", PK raises many valid questions such as
1. Why God punish us: If we are children of God, when our own parents do not sent us through misery and suffering to go away from our problem, why God will tell us to do so? A very good and valid point. We see the people taking pain to get their problem resolve, traveling extensively, doing painful practices.
2. How people are made fool on the name of religion: Father, pastor, priest, pandit, Maulavi, Imams and all the religious leaders are making people to fear. Unfortunately, we are not good loving person, we are God fearing person. In the name of religion, they sell fear and it is a no investment but foolproof business. I think, for generations, we have been trained to behave like this only. The status quo must change.
3. God is one, it does not have forms and different practices: We have created the religion, nobody has come with a stamp of a religion on our body. We wear the the dress of religion and God does not have such differences. We have made the religion so the killing of people in the name of religion to prove their religion's supremacy. This is exactly happening anywhere. Spreading the rumour that Muslims are not trustworthy, Pakistanis are betrayer etc.is not good enough. Have we really seen or experienced? Let the human be human.
There are many such things. I do not see this movie in anyway insults Hindu Gods or any God, it tells the burning truth which we must accept. I do not know the caretaker of religion, protesting on the road whether have actually watched the movie, whether they are sponsored by the producer or Amir Khan or whether these useless creatures and Goondas have any motive behind this but we must take the movie in a positive manner. It is an attempt to tell us that believe in the universal truth. I was reading a news on BBC yesterday where the reporter narrates his experience in a theatre in Pakistan. People after watching TV become happy that the movie has exposed Hindus, but the another person tells him that even their Maulavis do the same. However, his friend asks him to make silence otherwise he will be hanged on the charge of Blasphemy. I am proud that we are more liberal in India, unfortunately, in Pakistan and other Islamic country, in the name of religion, people do not have freedom to express.
I feel proud to be a Hindu and before that, I feel proud to be a human. I feel the movie is the need of the hour considering our blindness in the name of religion. We, the entire world is using this as a tool to attack other and show our superiority and this must stop. We must stop all those who are running their business of religion. I do not say that we should stop prayer, believing in God (and even the movie does not say it), but we must give room to every religion. We call Grape with different name- Angur, Draksha, Grape but finally, its original shape, colour, characteristic and taste do not change. It always remain a fruit. The same is case with God, it is one and universal. All the rituals, rules are man made and not God made. True, God is capable enough to protect itself and if we did that job, we will end the term called human and humanity.
PK is a clever movie in many terms. It did advertisement for Duracell, Maruti Suzuki, Kama Sutra Condoms, Hero Cycle, Monster.com and so on in the moviw and definitelt must have recoovered all the movie related expenses. Even if the movie would have a flop, Amir Khan, Rajkumar Hirani and the crew would not have incurred the lost. I think in the future, we may see a whole movie made on the base of the product and all the expenses paid by such brand (Mere Dad ki Maruti is an example). The protagonist PK speaks Bhojpuri (and naturally, this has done purposely to attract more north Indians- Bhojpuri speaking majority to attract in theatres and being a funny language due to its tone, other people would have accepted it).
Till then you enjoy PK without pi.ke. :)
PK is a clever movie in many terms. It did advertisement for Duracell, Maruti Suzuki, Kama Sutra Condoms, Hero Cycle, Monster.com and so on in the moviw and definitelt must have recoovered all the movie related expenses. Even if the movie would have a flop, Amir Khan, Rajkumar Hirani and the crew would not have incurred the lost. I think in the future, we may see a whole movie made on the base of the product and all the expenses paid by such brand (Mere Dad ki Maruti is an example). The protagonist PK speaks Bhojpuri (and naturally, this has done purposely to attract more north Indians- Bhojpuri speaking majority to attract in theatres and being a funny language due to its tone, other people would have accepted it).
Till then you enjoy PK without pi.ke. :)
Govind
Mumbai
January 01, 2015
Wish you all a very happy new year. Let we get strength to rise as a human.
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