PK (2014-Movie) : Bollywood Hindi Film

PK Movie Details :

PK Movie is a 2014 Indian Bollywood science fiction satirical comedy-drama film directer is Rajkumar Hirani and writter are Hirani and Abhijat Joshi. It was jointly producer are Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra under the banners Rajkumar Hirani Films and Vinod Chopra Films respectively. The film follows an alien who comes to Earth on a research mission, but loses his remote to a thief, who later sells it to a godman. He befriends a television journalist and in his quest to retrieve the remote, questions religious dogmas and superstitions. The film stars are Aamir Khan in the titular role with Anushka Sharma, Sushant Singh Rajput, Boman Irani, Saurabh Shukla and Sanjay Dutt in pivotal roles.

The film centres on a humanoid alien who is stranded on Earth, the planet he was supposed to study. In his journey, he experiences many aspects of humanity, including religions, customs, languages, attire, practices and beliefs.

After the success of 3 Idiots (2009), Hirani and Joshi’s began scripting their next project; finding similarities with the plot of Inception (2010), they scrapped the film. It was later rewritten with a different angle and tone. During production, the film was first titled Talli and later Ek Tha Talli before being changed to PK as the latter title was found too similar to Ek Tha Tiger (2012). The film’s soundtrack was composed by Shantanu Moitra, Ajay−Atul and Ankit Tiwari with lyrics written by Swanand Kirkire, Amitabh Varma and Manoj Muntashir. UTV Motion Pictures acquired the distribution rights of the film.

PK was released on 19 December 2014. It received generally positive reviews, with praise for the performances, particularly by Khan, and its portrayal of superstitions. The film received eight nominations at the 60th Filmfare Awards, winning two. Additionally, it won five Producers Guild Film Awards, and two Screen Awards. PK garnered the Telstra People’s Choice Award at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne.

Produced on a budget of 850 million, PK was the first Indian film to gross more than 7 billion and US$100 million worldwide. At the time, it emerged as the highest-grossing Indian film of all time and ranks as the 70th highest-grossing film of 2014 worldwide. The film’s final worldwide gross was 854 crore . It currently stands as the 5th highest grossing Indian film worldwide and 5th highest-grossing film in India.

• Directer : Rajkumar Hirani
• Producer : Vidhu Vinod Chopra,Rajkumar Hirani
• Writter : Abhijat Joshi,Rajkumar Hirani
• Starring : Aamir Khan,Anushka Sharma,Sushant Singh Rajput,Boman Irani,Saurabh Shukla,Sanjay Dutt
• Narrator : Anushka Sharma
• Music/Songs : Shantanu Moitra,Ajay-Atul,Ankit Tiwari
• Background Score : Sanjay Wandrekar,Atul Raninga
• Cinematography : C. K. Muraleedharan
• Editer : Rajkumar Hirani
• Casting : Mukesh Chhabra
• Production Design : Snigdha Basu,Sumit Basu,Rajnish Hedao
• Art Direction : Tanvi Patil
• Costume Design : Manoshi Nath,Rushi Sharma
• Makeup Department : Ashwin Barot,Sharda Cheulkar,Vikram Gaikwad,Puneet b Saini
• Production Management : Ankita Batra,Kartikay Gehlot,Harish Iyer,Parshuram Mane
• Visual Effects : Shiba Akhtar,Vishal Bhardwaj,Jitendra Bhatt,Yatin Bhave
• Action Directer : Sham Kaushal,Paramjeet Singh
• Animation Department : Sivapranav Panicker,Sheveta Raut
• Production company : Vinod Chopra Films,Rajkumar Hirani Films
• Distributer : UTV Motion Pictures
• Genres : Comedy,Drama,Musical,Sci-Fi
• Release date : 19 December 2014
• Running time : 152 minutes
• Country : India
• Language : Hindi

PK Movie Trailer :

Star Cast of The Film :

• Aamir Khan as a the Radio Station 92.7’s studio in Mumbai
• Aamir Khan as a PK, a humanoid alien
• Anushka Sharma as a Jagat “Jaggu” Janani Sahani, a news reporter & Sarfaraz’s love interest
• Sushant Singh Rajput as a Sarfaraz Yousuf, a Pakistani Muslim & Jaggu’s love interest
• Sanjay Dutt as a Bhairon ‘Bhaia’ Singh, PK’s beloved friend
• Boman Irani as a Cherry Bajwa, Jaggu’s boss
• Saurabh Shukla as a Tapasvi Maharaj, the godman
• Parikshit Sahni as a Jayprakash Sahni, Jaggu’s father
• Amardeep Jha as a Jaggu’s mother
• Ram Sethi as a the old man in Belgium who betrayed Sarfaraz & Jaggu
• Sai Gundewar as a the Belgium show Ticket Seller
• Rohitash Gaud as a Mr. Pandey, a police inspector
• Ranbir Kapoor as a fellow alien from PK’s home planet (special appearance)
• Reema Debnath as Phuljhadiya, the prostitute
• Sachin Parikh as a Tapasvi’s manager
• Michael Pekala as a bystander in train station
• Rukhsaar Rehman as a Pakistan embassy receptionist
• Plabita Borthakur as a Jaggu’s sister
• Anil Mange as a character dressed as Shiva
• Brijendra Kala as a idol seller at a temple
• Alok Pandey as a Reporter
• Rajeev Gupta as a Inspector of the New Delhi railway station
• Monali Thakur as a Kashmiri girl
• Maanvi Gagroo as a Mitu, Jaggu’s colleague
• Shaji Chaudhary as a Tapasvi Maharaj’s bodyguard

Story of The Film :

P. K. is a comedy of ideas about a stranger in the city, who asks questions that no one has asked before. They are innocent, child-like questions, but they bring about catastrophic answers. People who are set in their ways for generations, are forced to reappraise their world when they see it from PK’s innocent eyes. In the process PK makes loyal friends and powerful foes. Mends broken lives and angers the establishment. P. K.’s childlike curiosity transforms into a spiritual odyssey for him and millions of others. The film is an ambitious and uniquely original exploration of complex philosophies. It is also a simple and humane tale of love, laughter and letting-go. Finally, it is a moving saga about a friendship between strangers from worlds apart.

Production :

Development :

After the success of 3 Idiots, director Rajkumar Hirani and writer Abhijat Joshi started work for the next project.They had written a story about a character who had the ability to get into another person’s mind to make that person a better human being. They spent one year to write a story, but it turned out to be similar to Inception. After watching Inception, Hirani and Joshi were shocked by the similarities. Eventually, they decided to scrap the film, then Hirani and Joshi reworked on the script, changing the entire tone and angle. It took five years to make the film and three years to write it.

In PK, Khan played nine avatars and, during the course of the film, the actor had to chew over 10,000 betelnut preparations called paan. [citation needed] Betelnut is a psychoactive stimulant used throughout Asia and characterized by its ability to stain users’ mouths red.”In real life paan is not a habit, I have it once in a while but for this film I chew paan for every scene. I would at times eat about 100 paans in a day. We had a paanwala [a paan maker] on the sets,” said Khan in the report. For every take, Khan had to eat a fresh paan to fill his mouth. Before beginning the shoot, he would eat at least 10–15 paans to get the right color inside his mouth and on his lips.

Viral Thakkar was the visual effects supervisor. The visual effects company was Riva Digital at a point employing 100 artists working on the film.

Film Casting :

In 2011, Aamir Khan and Anushka Sharma signed on for the film. Khan’s nephew Imran Khan and Ranbir Kapoor were considered for a role which eventually went to Sushant Singh Rajput before the release of his debut movie Kai Po Che.Earlier reports said that Rajkumar Hirani had signed Arshad Warsi for the film when it was reported that Arshad will be playing an important role. In 2013 Arshad said in an interview “I couldn’t have worked out on dates. I wouldn’t refuse Raju for anything. In fact when he offered me the film, I did not even ask for the script, I was like I am ready to come on whenever you want. So that is the connection I share with Raju.” Before Sushant and Arshad were signed on, R. Madhavan and Sharman Joshi were said to be cast in the film. Junaid Khan, son of Aamir Khan worked as an assistant director in this film.

Characters :

PK: The lead character was written to be a Chaplinesque, bumbling alien and meant to provide an outside view to the quirks and hypocrisies of the Indian society. To further accentuate the alien look, Khan developed a distinct appearance and mannerisms including wearing green contact lenses and not blinking while talking. Khan learned Bhojpuri for the role with the help of the language expert Shanti Bhushan. Rajkumar Hirani said in an interview, “When we write a script we usually visualize the characters in the film. How they look, talk and walk. But PK is one such character which was very difficult to visualize. We didn’t have a reference point. PK was one such character, who didn’t have a reference point. A character like him wasn’t there in any book, nor did we meet someone like him in real life. We only knew that we wanted the character to be innocent and child-like. Now the question was, who is that actor who could look like a child. Someone who is perfect for the role of PK. The answer was obvious – Aamir Khan.”

Jagat “Jaggu” Janini: PK’s friend and confidante, ‘Jaggu’ is a television news reporter and is instrumental in spreading PK’s message. She was envisioned as a fun-loving yet mature and independent woman. The producers wanted a distinct look for Jaggu and ended up trying several options over a few days before settling on one. Anushka said in an interview “Raju Sir wanted me to look happy, chirpy and peppy in ‘PK’. Keeping his brief in mind, the team came up with this look.” She revealed that she was not required to cut her hair by remarking, “I have long hair, so hair stylists just wrapped my hair and tucked inside the wig”.

Bhairon Singh: Makers wanted somebody tall and sturdy for the role of Bhairon Singh and that’s why Sanjay came in the picture. Vidhu Vinod Chopra shared, “The character Bhairon Singh is shown to be PK’s good friend. The idea was that since PK is a tiny person, we wanted someone who in contrast is very huge. Such that, when Bhairon hugs PK, it looks funny as the tiny man would go completely unnoticed in Bhairon’s arms.”

Film Title

In 2011, in its initial scripting stage, Rajkumar Hirani named the film ‘Talli’, then changed it to ‘Ek Tha Talli’ which he loved but later on came to know that ‘Ek Tha Tiger’ was already in production (released in 2012). He dropped the idea and, after many titles, he came up with a title that only had initials, ‘PK’. After starting the film, Hirani felt PK was not a good enough title. He decided to change the title to ‘Talli’. But after a few weeks of shooting, Hirani decided to go back to the original title.

Themes :

Firstpost compared PK to Hirani and Khan’s previous collaboration 3 Idiots (2009), as they both involve “A socially awkward and ‘different’ young man who walks and talks in a strange, enthusiastic childlike manner observes the system, questions it, asks you to look at the many ludicrous things that inform it, and eventually brings about a minor revolution.”

Film Shooting :

According to Rajkumar Hirani, PK is a “satire on Hindu god and their godmen”. The co-director Khan began looking for shooting locations in July 2012. Second unit film shooting was set to started in late 2012, which was stalled after the rumoured departure of three department heads for the film and bad weather stalling initial shoots. Hirani denied rumours that the film would be delayed, stating that principal filming had always been intended to begin in mid-January 2013 in Delhi and Rajasthan to “capture the winter of Delhi”.

Shooting officially began on 1 February 2013, with the filming scheduled to occur over a 45-day period. A 26-day schedule of shooting of PK started in Delhi from 27 September 2013.

Marketing :

The Movie was marketed by a Mumbai Based company named Spice PR owned by Prabhat Choudhary.

The makers unlocked a teaser trailer on 23 October 2014. It achieved 3.4 million views on YouTube within five days, subsequently receiving 12 million views. It was regarded as the most viewed movie trailers on YouTube. The teaser was attached with the film Happy New Year.

In August the makers found a new promotional strategy to interact with the audiences by introducing talking standees. This was the first time a Bollywood film used a talking standee at varied locations as a part of its promotions. The standee had Aamir Khan talking to people in a prominent places in popular theatres and multiplexes.

On 7 December 2014, Aamir Khan began the city tour for promotions with Patna. The character he plays speaks in Bhojpuri which is the main language used for communication in Bihar. Aamir said at the event “I have decided to launch the promotional campaign of my film ‘PK’ from Bihar to connect with the language. My character speaks Bhojpuri in the film.” Hence, the actor decided to start his promotional schedule from Bihar. Although he wanted to visit Bhojpur, which is 60 kilometers from Bihar, he could not because of security issues. In Bihar he visited a litti chokha stall. The visit resulted in a surge of customers to the shop, and the shop owner put up pictures of Khan eating the local delicacy. Then the crew proceeded to Varanasi where they had a screening of their film 3 Idiots and interacted with the people. Khan made an impromptu visit to Krishana Paan shop to savor a Banarasi pan. The actor specially removed time from his schedule to visit this place. He enjoyed a “mitha banarasi paan” there. After the crew visited Delhi, Ahemdabad, Raipur, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Indore, Bangalore and other locations in India. Aamir and makers also promoted the film in Dubai.

Release :

PK was earlier scheduled to release on 6 June 2014. The director (who is also editor of the film), Rajkumar Hirani, wanted to spend more time editing. Besides, some portions with Sanjay Dutt were yet to be shot. Also, the second season of Satyamev Jayate was to kick off from March. So Aamir Khan was not sure if he would be able to promote PK in June. Hence the makers settled for a December release.

PK was released on 19 December 2014, as the 200th Bollywood release in 2014. The release was later expanded to 6000 screens worldwide, which included 5200 screens in India and 844 screens overseas.

PK was initially released in 4844 screens worldwide. PK has been made tax-free in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. PK is the widest Indian movie released in the U.K. (198 screens), Pakistan (over 70 screens), Australia (35 screens) and outside of India (844 screens in over 40 overseas markets).PK was released theatrically in China on 22 May 2015 across 4,600 screens. It had a dubbed Mandarin Chinese version, with Wang Baoqiang voicing Khan’s role. The film was released in South Korea and Hong Kong on 3 September 2015, and in Japan on 29 October 2016.

Distribution :

Koimoi reported rumors of a deal in which the satellite rights were sold for 850 million to Sony Entertainment Television if the domestic business reached 3 billion net. The music rights were sold for 150 million .DNA reported, “Being the first film to use Rentrak, Aamir Khan has taken the first initiative to bring in a paradigm shift from the usual norms followed in Bollywood. He had clearly enforced the idea of Rentrak to be brought in to bring more accuracy when it comes to box office figures.”

PK Movie Songs / Music :

The soundtrack is composer are Shantanu Moitra, Ajay−Atul and Ankit Tiwari with lyrics writter are Swanand Kirkire, Amitabh Varma and Manoj Muntashir. The song “Tharki Chokro” is the first single, released on 24 October 2014. The video focuses on Aamir Khan and Sanjay Dutt, with the song sung by Swaroop Khan and composed by Ajay−Atul with lyrics penned by Swanand Kirkire. The second single, “Love Is a Waste of Time”, which pictured Aamir Khan and Anushka Sharma, was released on 31 October 2014 on YouTube. The song is sung by Sonu Nigam and Shreya Ghoshal, composed by Shantanu Moitra with the lyrics of Amitabh Varma. “Chaar Kadam” was released on 2 November 2014 on the T-Series YouTube. The song is sung by Shaan and Shreya Ghoshal, composer is Shantanu Moitra with lyrics is Swanand Kirkire. The full soundtrack was released on 5 November 2014.

• “Tharki Chokro” – Ajay−Atul Swaroop Khan
• “Love Is a Waste of Time” – Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal
• “Nanga Punga Dost” – Shreya Ghoshal
• “Chaar Kadam” – Shaan, Shreya Ghoshal
• “Bhagwan Hai Kahan Re Tu” – Sonu Nigam
• “Dil Darbadar” – Ankit Tiwari
• “PK Dance Theme” – Instrumental

“Bhagwan Hai Kahan Re Tu” Full Video Song :

• SINGER – SONU NIGAM
• MUSIC DIRECTOR – SHANTANU MOITRA
• LYRICS – SWANAND KIRKIRE
• MUSIC LABEL – T-SERIES

“Love Is a Waste of Time” Full Video Song :

• SINGER – SONU NIGAM, SHREYA GHOSHAL
• MUSIC DIRECTOR – SHANTANU MOITRA
• LYRICS – AMITABH VARMA
• MUSIC LABEL – T-SERIES

PK Movie Review :

This film review are Mostly Positive from Critics, IMDB Public Reviewing site give 6.9 Star Out Of 10 Star with Reviewers are 1,63,881.

To make this short and quick, PK is a movie which includes drama and comedy. It focuses on a very serious topic using those two categories to further advance the plot. I recommend this movie for anyone who has watched any other movies of Rajkumar Hirani’s, as well as to any one who finds satirical comedies interesting to watch. Once you watch the movie for yourself you might agree with me, that the movie delivers on what it has to offer.

Critics Rating by Taran Adarsh, from Bollywood Hungama give 4.5 star out of 5 Star.

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