‘PK’: Latest Bollywood hit in the US
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The controversy-ridden movie starring Aamir Khan ‘PK’ scored the biggest Bollywood opening of all time with a confirmed 3.57 million US dollars at 272 locations in North America recently. The Indian comedy about a goggle-eyed alien who arrives on Earth with a mission to study humanity is the third Bollywood film to make the top 10 in recent years, following Dhoom 3 and Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani in 2013. Khan in PK plays an extra terrestrial who questions the subcontinent’s myriad religious creeds. There was a controversy in India from religious groups against the film which poses questions about belief systems. But that hasn’t seemed to dent box office.
Directed by Rajkumar Hirani, produced by Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Siddharth Roy Kapur, ‘PK’ stars Aamir Khan in the title role, with Anushka Sharma, Sushant Singh Rajput, Boman Irani, Saurabh Shukla, and Sanjay Dutt in supporting roles.
An alien (Aamir Khan) gets stranded on earth with nothing, not even clothes except a locket which was his remote to call the spaceship to go back to his planet. But, in a short time, the locket is looted from the alien. He tries to get it back but is unsuccessful. He comes to a land quite different from his home place where he slowly understands the use of money and clothes.
Once, when he was running for his life, he gets hit by the vehicle of Bhairon Singh (Sanjay Dutt) who thinks that the alien has lost his memory and is unable to recognize anyone. He takes the alien to his place and helps him try to adjust to Earth customs. He doesn’t understand the language on Earth and in order to help him do so, he tries to transfer it from women’s hands. Bhairon thinks that the alien is attracted towards women, so, he takes him to a night club where he was free to hold hands. After 6 hours of transferring, he gets to know their language from a girl, Phuljhadiya (Reema Debnath).
The film is now being screened at Ultra, Majestic Cineplex, Colombo.
