Casts: Aamir Khan, Anushka
Sharma, Sushant Singh Rajput, Boman Irani, Saurabh Shukla, and Sanjay Dutt
Banner: Aamir Khan
Productions
Director: Rajkumar
Hirani
Producer: Rajkumar Hirani,
Aamir Khan, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Siddharth Roy Kapur
Writers: Rajkumar
Hirani and Abhijat Joshi
Music: Shantanu Moitra, Ajay
Gogavale and Atul Gogavale
Release Date: 19th
December 2014
Story line: A stranger in the city asks questions no one has asked before. Known only by his initials, P.K.'s innocent questions and childlike curiosity will take him on a journey of love, laughter and letting-go.
Rajkumar Hirani the director of this movie
has stated that the film will be a satire on "God and godmen".
Know more about the captain of the Ship, the
director: Rajkumar Hirani (commonly known
as Raju Hirani) was born on 20 November, 1962 in Nagpur to a Sindhi family. His
father Suresh Hirani ran a typing institute in Nagpur. Hirani family migrated
to India from Sindh during Partition of India when Suresh Hirani was
14-year-old. Rajkumar Hirani studied in St. Francis De'Sales High School,
Nagpur, Maharashtra. Rajkumar did not have enough marks to get admission in
engineering and medical courses so he did his graduation in commerce.Hirani
helped his father in his business but he wanted to be actor in Hindi films. In
college days he was involved with Hindi theatre. Suresh got his son's
photographs shot and packed him off to an acting school in Mumbai. But Raju
could not blend in and returned to Nagpur after three days. His father then
asked Raju to apply to the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune, but
the acting course had shut down by then and chances of admission to the
directorial course looked slim as there were far too many applicants. So Raju
opted for the editing course. He earned a scholarship, thereby reducing the
load on his father's shoulders
Rajkumar Hirani's first directorial venture
was Munnabhai MBBS (2003) which is considered a cult classic. Munnabhai MBBS
not only broke all formulaic conventions associated with Bollywood films but
also became a trend setter. Made on a budget of Rs. 100 million, it was a huge
hit worldwide and took a distributor share of Rs. 250 million from the Indian
market. His second directorial effort was Lage Raho Munnabhai which had a
strong cultural impact in India, popularising Gandhism under Munna Bhai's
notion of Gandhigiri. The film was generally well received by both critics and
the mass audience and was a huge box office success.
His third film was the comedy 3 Idiots
starring Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Kareena Kapoor, Omi Vaidya,
Parikshit Sahni and Boman Irani. The film was also very well received by the
critics. 3 Idiots became the highest grosser in Indian cinema shattering all
records across Indian and overseas markets.
Facts And Figures:
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Film length is 2 hour 33 minutes.
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A 26-day schedule of shooting of PK started
in Delhi from 27 September 2013. When the shoot of the film was going on in
Chandni Chowk area of Delhi, an FIR was lodged against makers of the film for
allegedly hurting religious sentiments in October 2013. The objection was
regarding a scene in the film where a man dressed as the Hindu deity, Lord
Shiva pulls the rickshaw with two burqa clad women as passengers.
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The first poster came out on 31 July 2014. A
motion poster was also released on the same day on YouTube. The poster sparked
a controversy as it featured Aamir Khan posing almost nude with only a
transistor covering his private parts. The poster was criticized for allegedly
promoting obscenity. A PIL was filed in the court by the All India Human Rights
and Social Justice Front to ban the release of the film. The Supreme Court
dismissed the plea and gave the movie a green signal
·
Koimoi reports rumors of a satellite deal in
which the satellite rights were sold for INR85 crore (US$14 million) if the
domestic business reaches INR 300 crores domestic nett. The music rights were
sold for INR15 crore (US$2.4 million)
·
The Box office critic are predicting that Pk
in its first day will make a collection of 40 Crores INR on its opening day and
it will collect more than 400 Crores as Lifetime box office collection.
My Gut Feel and comments:
Raju hirani brought back the characterization
in hindi films after long time, beat the character of munna bhai, circuit,
chatur ramalingum or viru sahastr budhi etc. His films are pure entertainment
with evenly balanced screenplays presented in simplest way possible. In his
three films as director he has offered stories with mass appeal which connected
well with Indian audience, same seems to be the case with PK.
PK appears to be bit experimental in nature
as far its screenplay or story line is concerned however one this is clear that
it would be holding the entertainment value backed by some interesting
performances. Length of the movie is just over two and a half hour, I believe
it should be shorten by 15 minutes as these day holding the attention of audience
for this much long is a daunting task.
Aamir khan is looking extraordinary in promos
and anushka appearing refreshing. It has been observed off late that big banner
films with superstars are low in the content still manage to do good business
at box office resultant of high voltage marketing and extensive screening
around festivals or holidays which practically do not do justice to the
audience and can be considered as cheating as even being average movies they do
wonderful business at box office. However this does not seems to be case with
PK and as per my gut feel it would be a treat to audience and live up to the
expectations.
I would give this movie 4 out of 5 stars,
four days before the release.