PK is a one-time
watch and its claim for that tag is the humour with which they have approached
everything. Apart from that, there is nothing about the film that appealed to
me: the acting, the storyline, the way issues have been handled, etc. In fact,
the film tries to tackle a lot of issues in one go and fails to do justice to
them; any of them. At best, PK is a mediocre movie and it's only the technical
work like editing, screenplay and dialogues that make for some salvation, not Aamir
Khan.
Talking about acting, the actors failed to establish a
connect. Aamir Khan was good as PK, but the conceptualisation of the character
wasn't brilliant; only his dialogues were. This is not even close to being his
best performance. Anushka Sharma's acting doesn't let the character linger on
your mind probably for her inadequate dialogue delivery. Sushant Rajput was
good but barely had any screen time.
About the movie plot, it was fine, but that's all that it
was. My problem with the movie was that it tried to do too much and failed at
all of it. Let's take the entire idea of faith. Oh yes, PK could mobilise the
entire nation with his idea of the wrong number with his common sense that he
uses and others didn't prior to this, he finds all faith equally comforting and
equally confusing, etc. However, the end shows the entire question of faith in
religion on a stupid thing like whether the prophecy was right or wrong.
Understandably, the film aimed at highlighting that being Muslim doesn't
characterize one as a cheater and yet, it hinges on whether a relationship was
trust-worthy or not. Putting the incredulity of the fact that the entire
Pakistani embassy was on its feet at Jaggu's call, or that it was even open on
a Sunday, or that this entire things is very conveniently discussed on national
television like a personal dialogue, how does idealism of relationships save a
situation where religious problems are in question? Ok, it's a movie so guy
loves girl but would you really just throw the entire thing away if in real
life, the guy really didn't love the girl?
This also reduces the lightly picked upon incident of the
bomb blast and Sanjay Dutt's death in the movie. PK says God doesn't need
protection, and fools like you tried to do something similar today morning with
the blast. Now, such an important point gets lost because faith can easily be
instead reaffirmed and a religious/spiritual mass leader can only be deemed
unreasonable by the success of a love story. Sanjay Dutt's story hangs in the
air like a parallel plot that was oscillated between relevance and irrelevance
throughout the movie and it is denied a proper end even after it was elevated
to something so urgent.
Talking about things that seem out of place, PK falling for
Jaggu is also absolutely irrelevant. He didn't have to love her to have a
discussion on staying on earth and finding love and changing names for that
purpose to give her some cards to remind her of Sarfaraaz to hold her hand to
know what's happened to reveal it during the talk. That's called absudity. Again, another strand
of thought picked up and left hanging in the middle.
So love, religion, communication, longing to go home,
unrequited love and terrorism all tried to mesh together to make something
wonderful. I think this project didn't quite go well.
Having said all of this, what make the movie a good one time
watch is the way the logic in faith is manifested through PK. Locking his
slippers with the cycle lock, looking at donation as fee for work, trying to
find universality in communicating with God through wine, pooja ki thaali, etc.
Makes sense and it is indeed a fresh approach to question logic of ritualistic
faith.
So yes, you should watch PK. Yes, it is a good film. No, you
don't have to leave your brains at home but don't expect it to be a mind
blowing watch unless you're easy to please. It's just a good watch.
