It is not mystery that PK is this season's most awaited movie. The ad time alone (before and during the movie) is long enough for a documentary film or 2 episodes of Big Bang Theory. But how can it not be, when the movie has Rajkumar Hirani and Amir Khan. This duo dished out 3 Idiots which broke all Box Office records. But does PK surpass 3 Idiots or the Munnabhai franchise films by Mr. Hirani, which are nothing short of Box Office legends. Coming to the story line, Amir Khan an alien from a distant planet who makes his entry in his birthday attire. Soon enough however his loses his homing device, and is left estranged on this planet with no knowledge of its people, culture and of course "Bhagwan". I must say an average mumbaikar will lose his mind if left beyond thane, stranded in the middle of deserts of Rajasthan is nothing short of being on an alien planet itself. In the next 3 hours, PK learns Bhojpuri, spots dancing cars with amazing accuracy and questions the fundamentals of God, God-Man and religion. Unfortunately for India, this is a topic which is always in discussion and hence its no surprise that the timing of this movie is sublime.
For sometime now I have come to a conclusion that religion in itself is a method of control, and there are distinct economic models around which is based. While no religion per se is bad, our minds have been so well trained to spot the religion before we catch the name, that well for most of us religion has become synonymous with God. Without being too preachy and in a funny manner, PK attacks the fundamentals of religion and concludes by saying - there are 2 Gods, 1 that is truly the God, and 1 that is the God made by the God-man and the religion. I couldn't agree more!
Coming to the movie as a whole, let me start by saying that very few things irritate me more in a hall, than a person talking loudly. I found out during PK that the 'lip job gone bad pout' of Anushka Sharma puts those people to shame. For a good part of 1st half I was not able to look at anything other than the 'V for Vendetta'- esque lip job. My sincere sympathies for Virat! I also have a theory on how they chanced upon Amir's wide eyed PK look- a bot-ox job gone wrong. This is a movie, which Amir Khan could pull off in his sleep. All you needed to tell him was - boss Satyamev Jayate ka shooting hai! The resemblance with Satyamev Jayate becomes even more uncanny with Amir's PK avatar crying a river through most part of the last 30 minutes. I think the actor who really stood out was Saurabh Shukla and his potrayal of the God-man. In many way this was a lazy effort by Rajkumar Hirani as the movie had too many similarities with Munnabhai series. I think he could have just swapped Sanjay Dutt and Amir Khan's roles and named it Munna Bhai Alien ! To make it worse even the sound track is nothing great. However by the end of the movie you do feel a little bad for Amir who joins the list of "friend-zoned" aliens of our generation (though I understand his confusion about Anushka, after all her lips were "out of this world")
So to summarize the movie has a strong screenplay, great comic timings, and message which needs to be drilled down in everyone's minds. What lets you down is that lack of "Wow" factor. After all this is a Amir Khan movie and not SRK's circus. You expect better stuff going in, that is where I think this movie under delivers. Having said that I think this is definitely a one-time watch, also as you leave the hall don't forget to donate to the charity fund raised to help restore Anushka's lips - "You should have left that ass-fat where it belonged !"
