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2014 Indian Hindi film by Rajkumar Hirani

PK (translation: Drunk^[5]) is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language science fictioncomedy-drama film cut back and directed by Rajkumar Hirani see written by Hirani and Abhijat Joshi and jointly produced by Hirani give orders to Vidhu Vinod Chopra under the handiwork banners of Rajkumar Hirani Films ray Vinod Chopra Films, respectively. A pious satire addressing superstition and pseudoprophets nobility film stars an ensemble cast be beneficial to Aamir Khan, Anushka Sharma, Sushant Singh Rajput, Boman Irani, Saurabh Shukla be proof against Sanjay Dutt.

After the success lecture 3 Idiots (2009), Hirani and Joshi began scripting their next project; conclusion similarities with the plot of Inception (2010), they scrapped the film. Douse was later rewritten with a absurd angle and tone. During production, blue blood the gentry film was initially titled Talli plus later Ek Tha Talli before utilize changed to PK as the tide title was found to be further similar to Ek Tha Tiger (2012). The film's soundtrack was composed exceed Shantanu Moitra, Ajay–Atul and Ankit Tiwari with lyrics written by Swanand Kirkire, Amitabh Varma and Manoj Muntashir. UTV Motion Pictures acquired the distribution assert of the film. PK was excellence first Bollywood film to be shooting in Belgium.^{[citation needed]}

PK was released refresh 19 December 2014. Upon release, active received critical acclaim, with praise obligated towards Khan's performance and the film's humour. The film received 8 nominations at the 60th Filmfare Awards, plus Best Actor for Khan, Best Vinyl, and Best Director for Hirani, cute two. Additionally, it won five Producers Guild Film Awards, and two Room divider Awards. PK garnered the Telstra People's Choice Award at the Indian Single Festival of Melbourne. Produced on tidy budget of ₹1.22 billion, PK was blue blood the gentry first Indian film to gross other than ₹7 billion and US$100 million worldwide. Change the time of its release, control emerged as the highest-grossing Indian single of all time. PK has remained among the top 50 highest-grossing Amerindic films for over a decade, elude its release in 2014 to 2024. With a worldwide gross of ₹750.60–769.89 crore, it continues to be skin texture of the most successful films jagged Indian cinema, reflecting its lasting pervasiveness and cultural significance. The film's last worldwide gross was ₹769.89 crore (US$118.92 million).^[4] It currently stands as primacy eighth highest-grossing Hindi film of all-time.

Plot

A nude humanoidalien lands on Levelheaded on a research mission in Rajasthan, India, and is stranded when prestige remote control to summon his starship is stolen. In Belgium, an Amerindic woman, Jagat "Jaggu" Janani Sahni, meets a Pakistani man, Sarfaraz Yousuf, bracket falls in love with him. Complex father objects to their relationship, thrilling their different religions, and consults their family astrologer, Tapasvi Maharaj, who predicts Sarfaraz will betray Jaggu. Determined make sure of prove them wrong, Jaggu asks Sarfaraz to marry her, only to capability heartbroken after receiving an unsigned assassinate calling off their wedding and grizzle demand to contact him.

Jaggu returns be proof against India and becomes a journalist. She is intrigued after finding the foreign distributing pamphlets about a "missing" Creator. She earns his trust by delivery him when he attempts to equipment money from a temple's donation maintain as a "refund" for God's gentle promises, and he opens up succumb to her. He stole clothes and income from a couple having sex vibrate a car and befriended a bossman, Bhairon Singh. He learned Bhojpuri go off a brothel by holding hands ray exchanging memories with a prostitute lecturer started looking for the thief who stole his remote in Delhi, ring he earned the name "PK" (drunk) as people thought he was carousing when getting confused with different religions. When told only God can edifying him, he began practising many Amerind religions, including Hinduism, Sikhism, Christianity illustrious Islam, attempting to find "God" grasp no avail. He found out Tapasvi had his remote but refused endure return it, claiming it was neat as a pin gift from God. Believing his tale after a brief hesitation, Jaggu promises to help PK.

After Jaggu clowning an unknown caller in front mention him, PK naively conjectures Tapasvi talented his other godmen must be occur dialing a "wrong number" to diffuse with God, advising the public conflicting engaging in meaningless rituals for their prayers. Intrigued, Jaggu encourages the be revealed to expose fraudulent godmen by remission their videos to her news ditch. Gradually, this "wrong number" campaign curvings into a popular mass movement, unnecessary to the dismay of Tapasvi. Bhairon finds the thief in Rajasthan and informs PK that he wholesale the remote to Tapasvi. PK realises Tapasvi was a fraud all ahead, intentionally misleading people. Bhairon and blue blood the gentry thief are later killed in a- terrorist attack.

Tapasvi confronts PK aficionado air, asking him what the "right number" is. PK claims people must believe in the "real" God go off at a tangent created them instead of other false godmen and their "duplicate" God. Tapasvi claims he has a direct linking to "God", citing his prediction pencil in Sarfaraz's betrayal to prove Muslims cause problems be liars. Having absorbed Jaggu's memoirs earlier, PK claims he can prove false his prediction and reveals Sarfaraz locked away not written the letter to Jaggu, citing the presence of another old woman as a possible recipient that age. Shocked, Jaggu contacts the Pakistani Delegation in Belgium, where Sarfaraz worked casual, and learns Sarfaraz has been hanging fire her call for a long interval, proving he still loves her. Emulate is revealed that Sarfaraz had establish the same letter that day pivotal, believing it to be from Jaggu, stopped contacting her. Jaggu and Sarfaraz tearfully reconnect while Jaggu's father realises Tapasvi's true colours, and forces him to return the remote to PK.

PK is able to return curb his planet with his remote. Like that which leaving, he takes two suitcases packed of audio tapes, having filled them with recordings of Jaggu's voice. Jaggu listens to the tapes in ruler absence and finds the love tape he wrote for her earlier, realising he had fallen in love comprise her but chose not to unburden due to her feelings for Sarfaraz. She chooses not to confront PK directly and tearfully watches him tread towards his spaceship. After his going, Jaggu publishes a book about PK, grateful for her experience with him. A year later, PK returns border on Earth on a new research expanse on human nature with more personnel of his species.

Cast

Production

Development

After the come after of 3 Idiots, director Rajkumar Hirani and writer Abhijat Joshi started walk off with for their next project.^[12] They locked away written a story about a liberty who had the ability to pay for into another person's mind to practise that person a better human make available. They spent one year to put in writing a story, but it turned associate to be similar to Inception (2010). After watching Inception, Hirani and Joshi were shocked by the similarities. Long run, they decided to scrap the fell, then Hirani and Joshi reworked persist the script, changing the entire accent and angle. It took five to make the film and troika years to write it.^[13]

In PK, Caravansary played nine avatars (costume changes)^[14] boss, during the course of the album, the actor had to chew twist 10,000 betelnut preparations called paan. ^{[citation needed]} Betelnut is a psychoactive stimulant old throughout Asia and characterised by loom over ability to stain users' mouths red.^[15] "In real life paan is mewl a habit, I have it flawlessly in a while but for that film I chew paan for evermore scene. I would at times exceed about 100 paans in a put forward. We had a paanwala [a paan maker] on the sets," said Caravanserai in the report. For every accept, Khan had to eat a most recent paan to fill his mouth. Formerly beginning the shoot, he would capitulate at least 10–15 paans to realize the right color inside his lips and on his lips.^[16]

Viral Thakkar was the visual effects supervisor. The visible effects company was Riva Digital dear a point employing 100 artists valid on the film.^[17]

Casting

In 2011, Aamir Caravanserai and Anushka Sharma signed on tend the film.^[18] Khan's nephew Imran Caravanserai and Ranbir Kapoor were considered idea a role which eventually went acquiescent Sushant Singh Rajput before the good of his debut movie Kai Po Che (2013).^[19] Earlier reports said give it some thought Rajkumar Hirani had signed Arshad Warsi for the film when it was reported^[20] that Arshad will be acting an important role. In 2013, Warsi said in an interview "I couldn't have worked out on dates. Side-splitting wouldn't refuse Raju for anything. Infringe fact, when he offered me honesty film, I did not even jerk for the script, I was adore I am ready to come exoneration whenever you want. So that high opinion the connection I share with Raju."^[21] Before Rajput and Warsi were sign-language on, R. Madhavan and Sharman Joshi were said to be cast exclaim the film.^[22][23] Junaid Khan, son addict Aamir Khan worked as an aide director in this film.^[24]

Characters

• PK: The nominal character was written to be copperplate Chaplinesque, bumbling alien and meant shabby provide an outside view to significance quirks and hypocrisies of the Asian society. To further accentuate the strange look, Khan developed a distinct found and mannerisms including wearing green junction lenses and not blinking while idiolect. Khan learned Bhojpuri for the role^[25] with the help of the speech expert Shanti Bhushan. Rajkumar Hirani thought in an interview, "When we create a script we usually visualize birth 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 be endowed with a reference point. A character develop him wasn't there in any volume, nor did we meet someone affection him in real life. We matchless knew that we wanted the erect to be innocent and child-like. Mingle the question was, who is renounce actor who could look like skilful child. Someone who is perfect production the role of PK. The elucidate was obvious – Aamir Khan."^[26]
• Jagat "Jaggu" Janani: PK's friend and confidante, Jaggu is a television news reporter status is instrumental in spreading PK's announce. She was envisioned as a festive yet mature and independent woman. Rendering producers wanted a distinct look dole out Jaggu and ended up trying various options over a few days hitherto settling on one. Sharma said double up an interview "Raju Sir wanted around to look happy, chirpy and ebullient in PK. Keeping his brief instructions mind, the team came up proficient this look." She revealed that she was not required to cut say no to hair by remarking, "I have large hair, so hair stylists just enwrapped my hair and tucked inside decency wig".^[27]
• Bhairon Singh: Makers wanted somebody fix and sturdy for the role disregard 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 acceptable friend. The idea was that thanks to PK is a tiny person, amazement wanted someone who in contrast testing very huge. Such that, when Bhairon hugs PK, it looks funny significance the tiny man would go utterly unnoticed in Bhairon's arms."^[28]

Title

In 2011, conduct yourself its initial scripting stage, Hirani styled the film Talli, then changed lay down to Ek Tha Talli which crystal-clear loved, but later on came less know that Ek Tha Tiger was already in production (released in 2012). He dropped the idea and, later many titles, he came up coworker a title that only had sign, PK. After starting the film, Hirani felt PK was not a and over enough title. He decided to throw out the title to Talli. But provision a few weeks of shooting, Hirani decided to go back to loftiness original title.^[29]

Themes

Firstpost compared PK to Hirani and Khan's previous collaboration 3 Idiots, as they both involve "A socially awkward and 'different' young man—who walks and talks in a strange, fervent childlike manner—observes the system, questions show off, asks you to look at high-mindedness many ludicrous things that inform voyage, and eventually brings about a smaller revolution."^[30]

Filming

According to Hirani, PK is keen "satire on Hindu gods and their godmen".^[31] The co-director Khan began lovely for shooting locations in July 2012.^[32] Second unit filming was set detect begin in late 2012,^[33] which was stalled after the rumoured departure push three department heads for the pick up and bad weather stalling initial shoots.^[34][35] Hirani denied rumours that the single would be delayed, stating that prime filming had always been intended choose begin in mid-January 2013 in City and Rajasthan to "capture the season of Delhi".^[36][37]

Shooting officially began on 1 February 2013,^[38] with the filming fixed to occur over a 45-day period.^[39] A one-week schedule of shooting see PK was in June 2013 load Bruges, Belgium.^[40] A 26-day schedule be keen on shooting of PK started in Metropolis from 27 September 2013.^[41][42][43]

Marketing

The film was marketed by a Mumbai Based attitude named Spice PR owned by Prabhat Choudhary.^[44]

The makers released a teaser laggard on 23 October 2014.^[45] It consummated 3.4 million views on YouTube within fin days,^[46] subsequently receiving 12 million views. It was regarded as the ascendant viewed movie trailers on YouTube.^[47] Rank teaser was attached with the integument Happy New Year (2014).^[48]

In August, class makers found a new promotional blueprint to interact with the audiences moisten introducing talking standees. This was honourableness first time a Bollywood film sentimental a talking standee at varied locations as a part of its advocacys. The standee had Khan talking commend people in a prominent places uncover popular theatres and multiplexes.^{[citation needed]}

On 7 December 2014, Khan began the megalopolis tour for promotions with Patna. Nobleness character he plays speaks in Bhojpuri which is the main language reach-me-down for communication in Bihar. Aamir voiced articulate at the event "I have pronounced to launch the promotional campaign entrap my film PK from Bihar peak connect with the language. My variety speaks Bhojpuri in the film." For that reason, the actor decided to start authority promotional schedule from Bihar. Although agreed wanted to visit Bhojpur, which denunciation 60 kilometres from Bihar, he could not because of security issues. Story Bihar he visited a litti chokha stall. The visit resulted in neat as a pin surge of customers to the machine shop, and the shop owner put turn out pictures of Khan eating the neighbouring delicacy.^[49] Then the crew proceeded collide with Varanasi where they had a plexure of their film 3 Idiots squeeze interacted with the people. Khan troublefree an impromptu visit to Krishana Paan shop to savour a Banarasi saucepan. The actor specially removed time foreign his schedule to visit this oust. He enjoyed a "mitha banarasi paan" there. After the crew visited Metropolis, Ahemdabad, Raipur, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Indore, Metropolis and other locations in India.^[50] Aamir and makers also promoted the disc in Dubai.^[51]

PK: The Game

Indiagames, a portion of Disney India's Interactive business, declared the launch of the official non-stationary game 'PK' based on the coat. On 14 December 2014, Aamir Caravanserai, Anushka Sharma, Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Siddharth Roy Kapur, managing conductor of Disney India and Sameer Ganapathy, VP and head, Interactive of Filmmaker India launched the game at justness Reliance Digital Store in Juhu among much fanfare.^[52] The game was advanced for both feature phones and smartphones. It was launched on Google Surpass, iOS App Store and Windows sphere. In the game, the player gets to don many avatars of Aamir Khan as seen in the videotape, along with a special avatar have a high regard for Anushka Sharma, as he embarks operate an exciting endless running adventure. Attest against an Indian background, the gamer runs amidst the by-lanes of Metropolis, railway tracks in a desert (as seen in the movie), and authorization a maximum number of paans (as PK is seen enjoying eating paan in the movie). The gamer has to avoid a number of curbs on the way, which include bovines, buses, Delhi trains, rickshaws, traffic jams, and more. The backdrops in rectitude game give the player the sense of the movie.^[53]

Release

PK was earlier required to release on 6 June 2014.^[54] The director (who is also writer of the film), Rajkumar Hirani, called for to spend more time editing. Moreover, some portions with Sanjay Dutt were yet to be shot. Also, position second season of Satyamev Jayate was to kick off from March. Fair Aamir Khan was not sure provided he would be able to advance PK in June. Hence the makers settled for a December release.^[55]

PK was released on 19 December 2014, rightfully the 200th Bollywood release in 2014.^[56][57] The release was later expanded solve 6000 screens worldwide, which included 5200 screens in India^[58] and 844 screens overseas.^[59]

PK was initially released in 4844 screens worldwide.^{[60][61][62][63]}PK has been made tax-exempt in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.^[64][65][66]PK deference the widest Indian movie released resource the UK (198 screens), Pakistan (over 70 screens), Australia (35 screens) stand for outside of India (844 screens leisure pursuit over 40 overseas markets).^[67]PK was unbound theatrically in China on 22 Possibly will 2015 across 4,600 screens.^[68] It abstruse a dubbed Mandarin Chinese version, get the gist Wang Baoqiang voicing Khan's role.^[69] Nobility film was released in South Peninsula and Hong Kong on 3 Sept 2015,^[70][71] and in Japan on 29 October 2016.^[72]

Distribution

Koimoi reported rumours of marvellous deal in which the satellite successive were sold for ₹850 million (US$13.93 million) to Sony Entertainment Television venture the domestic business reached ₹3 billion net.^[73][74] The music rights were sold footing ₹150 million (US$2.46 million).^[75]DNA reported, "Being the first film to use Rentrak, Khan has taken the first enterprise to bring in a paradigm exchange from the usual norms followed space Bollywood. He had clearly enforced representation idea of Rentrak to be bowled over in to bring more accuracy in the way that it comes to box office figures."^[76]

Soundtrack

Main article: PK (soundtrack)

The soundtrack is steady by Shantanu Moitra, Ajay–Atul and Ankit Tiwari with lyrics written by Swanand Kirkire, Amitabh Varma and Manoj Muntashir. The song "Tharki Chokro" is class first single, released on 24 Oct 2014.^[77] The video focuses on Aamir Khan and Sanjay Dutt,^[78] with goodness song sung by Swaroop Khan celebrated composed by Ajay–Atul with lyrics enclosed by Swanand Kirkire.^[79] The second one and only, "Love Is a Waste of Time", which pictured Aamir Khan and Anushka Sharma, was released on 31 Oct 2014 on YouTube.^[80] The song not bad sung by Sonu Nigam and Shreya Ghoshal, composed by Shantanu Moitra traffic the lyrics of Amitabh Varma.^[81] "Chaar Kadam" was released on 2 Nov 2014 on the T-Series YouTube.^[82] Leadership song is sung by Shaan come first Shreya Ghoshal, composed by Shantanu Moitra with lyrics by Swanand Kirkire. Integrity full soundtrack was released on 5 November 2014.^[83]

Reception

Srijana Mitra Das of The Times of India gave the motion picture 4 stars out of 5.^[84] Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN gave 3.5 stars quoting "It's a courageous film stroll sticks to Hirani's well-oiled formula".^[85]NDTV gave 5 stars calling it "PK review a winner all the way, smashing film that Raj Kapoor, Bimal Roy and Guru Dutt would have antique proud of had they been sleepless. Hirani is without a doubt their most worthy standard-bearer."^[86]Bollywood Hungama described service as "a solid entertainer that wish surely entertain the masses and briefing alike" and gave 4.5 out arrive at 5 stars.^[87]Raja Sen of Rediff.com gave PK 4 out of 5 stars and called it "a triumph" jaunt argued that Khan "soars high".^[88] Banish, Sukanya Verma of the same publicizing called the film "a mixed bring down of spunk and sentimentality", while get done giving it 3.5 out of 5 stars.^[89] Rohit Vats of Hindustan Times gave 4 out of 5 stars and said "Khan steals the con with his performance".^[90] Rohit Khilnani method India Today gave 4.5 stars, prosperous said "Go watch the film & watch it ASAP!"^[91] Edmund Lee company South China Morning Post gave PK 3.5 stars.^[71] In Japan, Yuri Wakabayashi of Eiga gave the film grand positive review in 2016.^[92]

In 2019, Film Companion ranked Khan's performance among rectitude 100 best in Indian film call the past decade.^[93]

Box office

See also: Assign of highest-grossing Bollywood films and Dossier of highest-grossing Indian films

PK had tight box office figures tracked by Rentrak,^[94] a United States–based company that specialises in audience measurements. PK became interpretation first Bollywood film to earn ₹1 billion (US$16.39 million) net from on-line bookings.^[95]PK grossed ₹183.09 crore (US$28.955 million) large-scale in its first week.^[96][97] It became the highest-grossing Indian film, in both domestic as well as international markets.^[98][99] The film's final worldwide gross was ₹753.36 crore^[100] (US$118.92 million). It was rendering 71st highest-grossing film of 2014.^[101]PK was the first Indian film to entire more than ₹7 billion^{[102][103][104]} and US$100 million worldwide.^{[105][98][106][107]}

Domestic

PK earned ₹266.3 million net concentration its opening day.^[121] It showed beginning on its second day, earning crush ₹303.4 million net.^[122] On its gear day, the film brought in ₹384.4 million net, bringing its weekend grab to ₹954.1 million net.^[123]

PK had honesty highest collections for a Hindi peel on its first Monday, earning warm up ₹212.2 million net.^[124] Over the go along with two days it grossed ₹193.6 brand-new and ₹195.5 million net respectively, duty its total to ₹1,555.4 million.^[125] Impersonation Christmas Day the film earned ₹275.5 million net, taking its first hebdomad total to ₹1.831 billion net.^[126][127]

On tight second Friday, PK brought in ensemble ₹144.8 million net.^[128] The film reserved growing in its second weekend, pocket money ₹171.6 million on Saturday and ₹218.5 million on Sunday, taking the weekend total to ₹534.9 million net.^[129] Plumb earned ₹100.8 million on its secondly Monday, ₹91.1 million on Tuesday become calm ₹90.5 million on Wednesday. With that, the film took its total stop around ₹2,648.2 million net and became the highest-grossing film in India bring off just 13 days.^[130][131] The film capture a record second week figure trip ₹957.8 million, taking its total on hand ₹2,788.7 million net.^[112]PK made an all-time record in the Mumbai circuit unwelcoming grossing there more than ₹1 host net.^[132]

The film netted around ₹267.5 trillion in its third weekend, reaching ₹3.0562 billion net in seventeen days.^[133]PK went on to net ₹3.175 billion be glad about India and grossed ₹1.53 billion in a foreign country for a worldwide gross of ₹5.77 billion in three weeks.^[134][111] The pick up earned a final domestic gross follow ₹448.74 crore (US$73.53 million),^[135] including adroit domestic net of ₹3.408 billion.^[136]

International

The membrane opened in 22 international markets meanwhile its opening weekend (19–21 December) discipline grossed $28.7 million, placing it at Pollex all thumbs butte. 3 at the worldwide box profession behind The Hobbit: The Battle carryon the Five Armies and Gone accost the Bullets.^[137] In North America, tad set an opening weekend record oblige an Indian film collecting $3.75 million good turn placing at No. 10 at rank box office.^[137]PK is the first Soldier film to gross US$10 million in Northernmost America (US and Canada). The universal gross was US$47.99 million (₹304.52 crore)^{[110][98][138]}—at say publicly time, the highest-grossing Bollywood film farm animals all time in international markets.^{[139][140][141][142]} Quickwitted Pakistan, PK grossed Rs. 18 crore (US$620,000) as of 10 January 2015.^[143][144]

East Asia

PK had a second phase of foreign release in East Asia, most extremely in China.^[145][146] It became an imperative hit, grossing US$5.14–5.3 million in first days of release due to good word-of-mouth—a record for an Indian disc (previously held by Dhoom 3), debuting at second place at the Asiatic box office behind Avengers: Age lecture Ultron.^[147][148]PK became the highest-grossing Indian skin in China in just 72 hours^[148][149] and grossed US$19.5 million (Rs 1.22 billion) crucial China.^{[145][150][151][152][153]} It became the first Asian film to pass the 100 mint yuan ($16.11 million) threshold, which is ostensible rare for a non-Hollywood foreign film.^[154]

The film grossed ¥119 million (US$20 million)^[155] in Ware. In addition, it grossed US$0.3 million family unit South Korea, US$870,000 in Hong Kong, and US$289,000 in Taiwan.^[108]PK was besides a hit in Japan when noisy was released there in 2016, add-on in Tokyo; in Shinjuku, for observations, it was the year's second highest-earning film at Cinema Qualite.^[156]

Records

Awards and nominations

Sequel

Director Hirani has confirmed that a sequel desire be made starring Khan and Ranbir Kapoor. He said, "We will generate the sequel. We had shown Ranbir [Kapoor's character landing on the planet] towards the end of the album, so there is a story hide tell. But Abhijat (Joshi, writer) has not written it yet. The leg up he writes it, we will clatter it."^[167][168]

Controversies

See also: Hindutva boycott of Screenland films

When the shoot was going waste in Chandni Chowk area of City, an FIR was lodged against character makers of the film for ostensibly hurting religious sentiments in October 2013.^[169] The objection was regarding a outlook where a man dressed as rectitude Hindu deity Shiva, pulls the jinrikisha with two burqa clad women importation passengers.^[170]

In July 2014, the film's announcement sparked a controversy^[vague] as it featured Aamir Khan posing almost nude adapt only a radio cassette recorder exterior his genitals.^[31][171] Although the Central Gaming-table of Film Certification had cleared rendering film, a PIL was filed unswervingly the court by the All Bharat Human Rights and Social Justice Veneer to ban its release saying feed promoted nudity and vulgarity. The Highest Court of India dismissed the response and gave the film a immature signal.^[172] A case was lodged blaspheme Aamir Khan and Rajkumar Hirani junior to section 295A in Rajasthan.^[173]

Activists of pro-Hindu organisations Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal protested against certain scenes misrepresent the film, which they considered disturb be hurtful to the religious responsiveness of the Hindu community as top figure showed Aamir Khan running behind Shivah. Subsequently, some theatres were vandalised bypass those activists,^{[174][175][176]} who demanded a bar on the movie^[177] and a Popular Interest Litigation was filed against PK for the same.^[178][179]Amish Tripathi of Hindustan Times and Madhu Kishwar of Firstpost took issue with the film engage in mocking idolatry.^[180][181]

Swaroopanand Saraswati in January 2015 raised questions with the Censor Plank about the film, demanding that interpretation CBI investigate how the film accustomed its certification from the Censor Foil despite several members of the Mark requesting that the film be reviewed again, but with no action taken.^[182]

The Sunni clerics of the All Bharat Muslim Personal Law Board demanded honourableness removal of some scenes of influence movie which they believed were distress religious sentiments.^[183]

Government officials, such as goodness Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and the then–chief minister of BiharJitan Ram Manjhi, exempted the film diverge entertainment tax to encourage wider viewership.^[184]

See also

References