PK: Movie Review

Raju Hirani has done 3 movies before PK and by this time I am confident that I would be able to make out even his 100th movie out of a heap of unlabelled DVDs. He has a signature style of movie making and he does a very good job at that. Else, who would have remembered a not so conspicuous person who used to come in small TV Ads and jingles like Fevicol in 90s.

Plot:
PK is an alien who lands in Terminator style near a barren railway track in Rajasthan and he gets robbed off the remote control which was only way for him to get back to his planet. The entire movie is interspersed with his bouts of struggle to get back his remote from humans. Against all odds, Hirani's movie would always delve into an issue which would question status quo and challenge the system. Here in PK he has very smartly pushed in a satire on religion filled with incidental light humor and emotion-filled plot.
Anushka Sharma (Jaggu) is a repoter who helps PK get his remote back. Saurabh Shukla (Tapaswi Ji) is a godman whom PK confronts for his remote with simple yet powerful questions which make people wonder the veracity of the divisive religious faiths we have.

Strengths: Song- Chaar Kadam, Humor, Aamir, Anushka, Raju Hirani, Ranbir's guest entry, Wrong Number wala slogan - I am sure it will go viral

Weaknesses: Story (somehow hackneyed and unrealistic), Bhojpuri (I may be biased but plz don't distort a language so much), Charachter of Parikshit Sahni (father of Anushka. Who whistles at one's daughter's book recital ?? Overacting jerk !), Bomb-Blast was not needed to balance the tone, please and Dilliwaale

Overall: I liked the movie but not as much as I liked Raju's previous 3 movies.
Why ?
Well ... you see ...At one point Anushka's charachter even admits Hirani's intent behind PK, that people love to see something new all the time. Hirani seems to have assumed that the script of the PK would be taken as quite hat-ke but actually PK sounds so much like Akshay and Paresh Rawal starrer "OMG" ! On few occassions I felt irritated actually when I felt like watching OMG-2 !

Having said that - still Hirani saves his day by not overdoing the plot into details and tries to keep the issue-discussion bundled with humor and balances his challenges on one particular religion (i.e. Hinduism) by mixing other religions too. But somehow I felt, why being so defensive and explanatory ? A very controversial question that I wanted to ask Hirani was - why we Hindus (or Indians) feel afraid in making a satire biased while questioning even Islam ? Why we feel it's Ok to question Hinduism ? Just because it's a cultured behaviour to make fun of one's own community as that would not hurt others' sentiments ? Somehow I could feel the defensive as well as lopsided tone in the script.

So - One time watchable only ... and nowhere near MunnaBhai or Rancho ...

Stars: 3*

Chalaa Taani !
Neo.

Karma = Bitch

As they say - Karma is a bitch ! She loves 69 because you get what you give 😜

You would wonder what made me say this ... Well ... recently I realised power of this bitch in its full bloom. 

Some backdrop to give you a perspective - My faith in myself is a strong one. I indeed started shaping myself up somewhere around 57th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing ... Strange ? Hehehe ... Nothing much but I picked up a book by Burke Hedges which talked about some tried and tested tips for success and happiness. One of the points that I remember out of that entire cellulose bundle is that we all are broadly results of our own actions and that taking responsibility of one's own actions and thoughts is a mandatory key to a successful life ...

Since then I started becoming more of what you know me as now and what I will become in future ...

But I was one person who realised power of thoughts, speeches and actions quite early in life ... Lucky me ...

Flash forward - The lightning struck when I was recently reminded that not everyone in this mrityu-lok is blessed with that kind of mind. There are people who love blaming others for their own problems ... I even went on to discover the intricate fabric / matrix of karma around our lives ... Which at times gets interspersed with others' Karma too ...

What people give you is their Karma but the way you respond back, is your Karma. So watch out ...

And thus, come what may, I'm not going to deter from my duties and the due Karma that I have to release in this metaphysical space within the time slot assigned to me out of eternity ... 

I am developing a taste for spiritualism and faith in a person whom I have been ignoring for long ... The God ... 

I can feel its presence in and around me ... Again ... And I feel strange ... It's like everything started coming back to me ... Again ... I even did a few days of research on the life beyond death ... Realised there has been no empirical evidence of a soul moving out of body and taking birth again into some different body in next life ... Scientists term the so-called soul as a manifestation of our very own neurons and some electrical pulses running through them ... and that when people describe the strange light that they saw during near death experiences are actually just hallucinations caused just when their brains were near complete brain death ... So we humans have somehow agreed that we are alone in this whole universe ? That would be an awful waste of space indeed 😜 ... Bullshit !

 

Not convinced .. Me .. You mini me's scientists ...

We are indeed manifestations of someone else sitting somewhere else doing something else ... Had that energy been so vulnerable to let us know all tools and concepts to decipher its own existence, we humans would have been impatient enough to have stained that citadel too ... Something's are better kept secret ... And then something's are better when told ... That Karma is a bitch ... Hence Proved. Now FO !

Love.

Chala Taani !

Neo 😜