PK: A poignant reminder of fear of religion (Not God) and how different fearists sell it.

One line is enough to summarize how two and half hours were (Well) spent. Trying not to spoil the movie's best kept secrets, the movie revolves around an amusing character who is far away from the civilization in which we live and he literally finds himself in an alien world. PK learns how to live with the limited knowledge of his surroundings and wins hearts with his honesty and childlike curiosity. PK relies on his learning quite literally and his actions are to the T which is not the way we live and hence at times he pulls a laughing riot and at some makes you question on your belief system. He shakes the ethos of many who are blind follower of the lines they have been asked to walk without taking any rational out of them and thus subjected to wrath of those who are blindfolded with their faith system. He unknowingly provokes questions which are seldom asked due to fear of backlash and gets people answer them in their discomfort.

Amir Khan minus PK stands for nothing. This movie belongs to him, there may be many characters but not sure why their story was not well constructed or may be PK was such an overwhelming character that while he was on screen you couldn't notice anyone else and that's the magic of Amir's class. My biggest let down was Bomen's no show. He was always one of the best written characters in Raju Hirani's movie but unfortunately he finds no bravo moment this time. For me he was completely wasted. Anushka was more or less similar to her chirpy image which she portraits in every other movie of hers. Other than her changed look I didn't quite find anything new with her this time as well.

While the movie was highly anticipated and was definitely top notch acting by Amir Khan for sure but I felt let down by the script which wasn't crisp and heavily relied on the spontaneity of protagonist. Parallels are to be drawn between PK and OMG and if I have to go by content and freshness then OMG is the winner. The analogy of being antagonist has been well played by Paresh Rawal and hence I wonder why Raju Hirani who is a class apart director went ahead with such lose content by his standard.

The movie tries to weave multiple issues like Indo-Pak, terrorism, Godmen, idol worshiping, religion in general and fail to capitalize on any except taking a dig over Godmen and their fake illumine. I surely don't find any content being objectionable for which outcry has been raised on net. Creative freedom is required for directors to objectify their view point and that was done with sincerity without any planned intention to hurt anyone's feeling. In totality I was tad disappointed with this one at the end.