Like all Aamir Khan movies, this one is socially charge and full of meaning while still being cute, funny, and full of the feels. In this story it takes an alien, with all sincerity and taking things literal to question why so much crap happens in the name of religion. His earnest, sincere heart teaching everyone a lesson in love and the nature of God.
So we start with PK (Aamir Khan) coming to earth, completely naked (and completely ripped, haha) and the first thing that happens is that his ship's remote control is stolen from him, because it looks like a huge, fancy, expensive necklace. Welcome to earth, I guess. He gets the name PK because he is constantly being asked: "are you drunk?" At the same time, on the same day, we meet Jaggu (Anuska Sharma) who is studying in Belgium. She meets Sarfaraz (Sushant Singh Rajput) and they fall in love, despite him being from Pakistan while she is from India. There are obvious barriers to their relationship, the biggest one being that he is Muslim and she is Hindu. Her family is super against it and His Holiness, the local superstar guru, predicts that he will betray her. He does, she returns to Delhi heartbroken, and becomes a reporter. This is where she meets PK.
PK, in a long quest to find his remote, has been caught up in religions... of all denominations, as he was told that the only way he could find a thief, and his remote, in a city of 15 million people, was with God's help. Being a literalist, he tries, and is disappointed in the results. This is an interesting montage of every major religion in India and some of the crazy things devotees are asked to do in the name of religion, including flagellation and rolling down the street. He quickly becomes disillusioned.
After Jaggu realized that he is, in fact, an alien. She promises to help him get his remote back, even if it means going head to head with His Holiness.
While it is very critical of certain aspects of organized religion, this movie is very respectful of God, and the hope that religion can bring. What it is calling out is all of the wrong that is done in the name of religion, or the name of god, such as terrorism, profiteering or conning, and sensationalizing religion. What it advocates for is God as a loving creator, and all religions acting in harmony and love. It gets you right in the feels at the end, where you are crying and smiling, and all those touching emotions and stuff. Whatever doubts I had in the middle were solved beautifully by the end. It was a very good movie on a very sensitive subject, religion, especially in such a diversely religious country.
Favorite Songs:
Bhagwan Hai Kahan Re Tu and Chaar Kadam
Favorite Dance:
Love is a Waste of Time
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