Pk ?!
Hiyaa my cuddly-om-pom-poms,
Christmas festivities full on, haan?!
Saw Pk, haven’t u?!
oh dear, why am I turned into a questionnaire?! :/
Chalo koi nai, toh mai kya ke rahi thi,
Have you seen Pk yet? Itni kadaake kit hand me bechara tape
recorder pehen ke aaya, and u haven’t even taken the pains to see him?! :)
Well, unfortunately I have. Unfortunately I say because now
that I have, I can’t stop myself from reflecting on it. U see, I am a genuine
Raju Hirani fan after Munna bhai. So even though I know that humans have their
limitations, I hate to see or admit any errs there.
Wo kya hai naa, round and round kitna bhi bole toh in the
end, centre me baat toh woitcch hai ki Raju Hirani koi picture banaigaa, toh
dekhna toh mandatory hai and I did just that. Hirani’s forte is Human nature
and its weaknesses, with effortless audience-connect.
But, I was disappointed….
Arrr… wait wait….i am not…repeat, Not saying that Pk was in
any way an insult to any religion nor did it mock any religion in the
slightest. Its message was just misread and misinterpreted. In fact I pity
those who are making a hulla baloo
on religious grounds.
I may add though that the message itself was portrayed in a
‘confused’ manner leading to all this chaos!! :))
But I don’t blame anyone, neither of them. They all put
enormous and sincere efforts… may it be Aamir’s Bhojpuri or tight screenplay,
the performances of all the actors Aamir, Anushka, The Boman Irani, Saurabh
Shukla, Pareekshit Sahni, even Sushant or our Sanju baba….there were all the
trademark Hirani tricks incorporated, to remind us of his previous movies, like
Heroine on her scooty on the same India- Gate wale Rajpath of Delhi with helmet
and Amir at the back, narration about Pk by Anushka, showing Boman’s katchha,
showing Aamir peeing, Farhaan ke papa and Raju Rastogi ki mummy as lucky
charms, etc etc etc. :)
Moreover its rocking at the box office and that’s what it
was meant to do, right?! :)
Pataa hai kya, did you all notice, that as Aamir was
portrayed as an alien, he had to be seen unblinking all the time. U can imagine
how difficult that would have been.
He took lessons on Bhojpuri too.
Anushka was so very convincing yet all the while that she
shown on the screen, my attention got diverted to her bad lip job done and I
was reminded of Donald duck despite all my efforts to concentrate on her
wonderful acting :)… wat to do…. :/
Again naa chahte huye bhi I was constantly reminded of
Paresh Rawal and Akki’s “Omg, Oh My God!!”that I had quite liked. It was
intense and convincing. Indian audiences could identify with it. This gave a
definite negative blow to Pk.:/
I went on patiently, viewing the whole movie, enjoying the
colorfulness and comedy waiting for the real theme, the real message to come,
bang on….
But it didn’t happen…inspite of everything….
No songs that I remembered after the movie ended, no crisp
dialogues either, no jadu ki jhappi or gandhigiri…even Sanju baba had
nothing much to do…. I Got bored seeing that hyper Aamir in every screen of the
movie :/
Mai bataati hu problem kahaa thi.
They say it’s a story
based on the life of a rationalist Abraham Kovoor, who gained prominence by his
criticism of God-men and religious frauds. Hirani says this movie is a satire
on God and God-men.
Dear sir, this did not come out so cleanly as you mention.
The movie became as confused as Aamir himself… In the dire and desperate attempt of
recreating the magic, Hirani got everything haywire….thankfully the audiences
did not put too much stress on their heads and took what they saw at the face
value. Good for him naa!! :)
Now let me tell u the real thing. :)
Humans and even animals have the intrinsic tendency to form
groups being gregarious in nature…and then, to increase the strength of their
own individual groups, may it be political groups, religious groups and the
most dreaded terrorist groups. Obviously each group tries to formulate its own
discrete ways and trends. Bhagwanji toh sirf ek bahana hain. And yes this was
somewhat a satire on that fact. But what is wrong in following a particular
group, only if it is not a harm to its inmates. That is where it all got
misfired.
Aur sabse mazedaar manifestation of this human tendency is
our very own “facebook!!!!” Foto daalaa toh kitne likes, comment kiya toh kitne
likes, page banaya toh kitne likes, group banaya toh kitne likes!!!! Hai naa!!
;)
Anyways all I wish is the efforts get paid off and the film
does well…rare bhai, our Ranbir made such a jhakkas entry in the end, nai?! :)
toh bhailog, Merry Christmas to all of u and a very lovely n lively
2015!!!
Khoob khush rehna aur khoob maze karna!!
Bye for now frm me at Page-3 here!!
Cheerio!!
