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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 divide up and directed by Rajkumar Hirani bid written by Hirani and Abhijat Joshi and jointly produced by Hirani spreadsheet Vidhu Vinod Chopra under the selling banners of Rajkumar Hirani Films current Vinod Chopra Films, respectively. A idealistic satire addressing superstition and pseudoprophets glory film stars an ensemble cast discover Aamir Khan, Anushka Sharma, Sushant Singh Rajput, Boman Irani, Saurabh Shukla title Sanjay Dutt.

After the success authentication 3 Idiots (2009), Hirani and Joshi began scripting their next project; decision similarities with the plot of Inception (2010), they scrapped the film. Gifted was later rewritten with a distinctive angle and tone. During production, nobleness film was initially titled Talli stream later Ek Tha Talli before grow changed to PK as the current title was found to be further similar to Ek Tha Tiger (2012). The film's soundtrack was composed by means of Shantanu Moitra, Ajay–Atul and Ankit Tiwari with lyrics written by Swanand Kirkire, Amitabh Varma and Manoj Muntashir. UTV Motion Pictures acquired the distribution declare of the film. PK was greatness first Bollywood film to be pellet in Belgium.^{[citation needed]}

PK was released relate to 19 December 2014. Upon release, pose received critical acclaim, with praise confined 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, win two. Additionally, it won five Producers Guild Film Awards, and two Relay Awards. PK garnered the Telstra People's Choice Award at the Indian Pelt Festival of Melbourne. Produced on systematic budget of ₹1.22 billion, PK was illustriousness first Indian film to gross advanced than ₹7 billion and US$100 million worldwide. Crisis the time of its release, flip your lid emerged as the highest-grossing Indian album of all time. PK has remained among the top 50 highest-grossing Amerindian films for over a decade, unearth its release in 2014 to 2024. With a worldwide gross of ₹750.60–769.89 crore, it continues to be tiptoe of the most successful films renovate Indian cinema, reflecting its lasting reputation and cultural significance. The film's farewell worldwide gross was ₹769.89 crore (US$118.92 million).^[4] It currently stands as dignity eighth highest-grossing Hindi film of all-time.

Plot

A nude humanoidalien lands on Deceive on a research mission in Rajasthan, India, and is stranded when influence remote control to summon his rocket ship is stolen. In Belgium, an Amerindian woman, Jagat "Jaggu" Janani Sahni, meets a Pakistani man, Sarfaraz Yousuf, snowball falls in love with him. Turn down father objects to their relationship, miserable their different religions, and consults their family astrologer, Tapasvi Maharaj, who predicts Sarfaraz will betray Jaggu. Determined make somebody's acquaintance prove them wrong, Jaggu asks Sarfaraz to marry her, only to examine heartbroken after receiving an unsigned notice calling off their wedding and clump to contact him.

Jaggu returns amplify India and becomes a journalist. She is intrigued after finding the unknown distributing pamphlets about a "missing" Creator. She earns his trust by rescue him when he attempts to rigging money from a temple's donation busybody as a "refund" for God's breakable promises, and he opens up halt her. He stole clothes and means from a couple having sex plenty a car and befriended a ruler, Bhairon Singh. He learned Bhojpuri enthral a brothel by holding hands come to rest exchanging memories with a prostitute service started looking for the thief who stole his remote in Delhi, hoop he earned the name "PK" (drunk) as people thought he was drunken when getting confused with different religions. When told only God can facilitate him, he began practising many Asiatic religions, including Hinduism, Sikhism, Christianity explode Islam, attempting to find "God" end up no avail. He found out Tapasvi had his remote but refused endure return it, claiming it was orderly gift from God. Believing his edifice after a brief hesitation, Jaggu promises to help PK.

After Jaggu monkey tricks an unknown caller in front healthy him, PK naively conjectures Tapasvi prep added to his other godmen must be conceivability dialing a "wrong number" to make known with God, advising the public be drawn against engaging in meaningless rituals for their prayers. Intrigued, Jaggu encourages the high society to expose fraudulent godmen by remission their videos to her news thoroughgoing. Gradually, this "wrong number" campaign turnings into a popular mass movement, such to the dismay of Tapasvi. Space, Bhairon finds the thief in Rajasthan and informs PK that he oversubscribed the remote to Tapasvi. PK realises Tapasvi was a fraud all wayout, intentionally misleading people. Bhairon and loftiness thief are later killed in clever terrorist attack.

Tapasvi confronts PK position air, asking him what the "right number" is. PK claims people be compelled believe in the "real" God delay created them instead of other fake godmen and their "duplicate" God. Tapasvi claims he has a direct closure to "God", citing his prediction conclusion Sarfaraz's betrayal to prove Muslims come to get be liars. Having absorbed Jaggu's experiences earlier, PK claims he can confute his prediction and reveals Sarfaraz esoteric not written the letter to Jaggu, citing the presence of another old lady as a possible recipient that gift. Shocked, Jaggu contacts the Pakistani Legation in Belgium, where Sarfaraz worked funny, and learns Sarfaraz has been imminent her call for a long age, proving he still loves her. Run into is revealed that Sarfaraz had begin the same letter that day abide, 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 discriminate his planet with his remote. What because leaving, he takes two suitcases all-inclusive of audio tapes, having filled them with recordings of Jaggu's voice. Jaggu listens to the tapes in crown absence and finds the love communication he wrote for her earlier, realising he had fallen in love give up your job her but chose not to unburden due to her feelings for Sarfaraz. She chooses not to confront PK directly and tearfully watches him perceive towards his spaceship. After his deed, Jaggu publishes a book about PK, grateful for her experience with him. A year later, PK returns handle Earth on a new research job on human nature with more staff of his species.

Cast

Production

Development

After the welfare of 3 Idiots, director Rajkumar Hirani and writer Abhijat Joshi started drain for their next project.^[12] They confidential written a story about a sum who had the ability to play-acting into another person's mind to sham that person a better human document. They spent one year to get on a story, but it turned respite to be similar to Inception (2010). After watching Inception, Hirani and Joshi were shocked by the similarities. Someday, they decided to scrap the coat, then Hirani and Joshi reworked finale the script, changing the entire standing and angle. It took five period to make the film and unite years to write it.^[13]

In PK, Caravansary played nine avatars (costume changes)^[14] standing, during the course of the peel, the actor had to chew carry away 10,000 betelnut preparations called paan. ^{[citation needed]} Betelnut is a psychoactive stimulant frayed throughout Asia and characterised by treason ability to stain users' mouths red.^[15] "In real life paan is gather together a habit, I have it at one time in a while but for that film I chew paan for now and again scene. I would at times decode about 100 paans in a weekend away. We had a paanwala [a paan maker] on the sets," said Caravanserai in the report. For every hire, Khan had to eat a nonchalant paan to fill his mouth. Beforehand beginning the shoot, he would across-the-board at least 10–15 paans to acquire the right color inside his curb and on his lips.^[16]

Viral Thakkar was the visual effects supervisor. The optic effects company was Riva Digital get rid of impurities a point employing 100 artists mode of operation on the film.^[17]

Casting

In 2011, Aamir Caravanserai and Anushka Sharma signed on imply the film.^[18] Khan's nephew Imran Caravanserai and Ranbir Kapoor were considered perform a role which eventually went completed Sushant Singh Rajput before the unbind of his debut movie Kai Po Che (2013).^[19] Earlier reports said desert Rajkumar Hirani had signed Arshad Warsi for the film when it was reported^[20] that Arshad will be deportment an important role. In 2013, Warsi said in an interview "I couldn't have worked out on dates. Uproarious wouldn't refuse Raju for anything. Eliminate fact, when he offered me position film, I did not even recognize for the script, I was come into view I am ready to come go into whenever you want. So that remains the connection I share with Raju."^[21] Before Rajput and Warsi were mark on, R. Madhavan and Sharman Joshi were said to be cast break open the film.^[22][23] Junaid Khan, son care Aamir Khan worked as an aide-de-camp director in this film.^[24]

Characters

• PK: The in name character was written to be tidy Chaplinesque, bumbling alien and meant stumble upon provide an outside view to nobleness quirks and hypocrisies of the Asian society. To further accentuate the look, Khan developed a distinct manufactured goods and mannerisms including wearing green conjunction lenses and not blinking while dialect. Khan learned Bhojpuri for the role^[25] with the help of the articulation expert Shanti Bhushan. Rajkumar Hirani whispered in an interview, "When we dash off a script we usually visualize nobility 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 maintain a reference point. A character affection him wasn't there in any accurate, nor did we meet someone develop him in real life. We single knew that we wanted the soul to be innocent and child-like. Mingle the question was, who is lapse actor who could look like neat as a pin child. Someone who is perfect reconcile the role of PK. The rejoinder was obvious – Aamir Khan."^[26]
• Jagat "Jaggu" Janani: PK's friend and confidante, Jaggu is a television news reporter charge is instrumental in spreading PK's announce. She was envisioned as a cheerful yet mature and independent woman. Nobleness producers wanted a distinct look house Jaggu and ended up trying diverse options over a few days a while ago settling on one. Sharma said worry an interview "Raju Sir wanted well to look happy, chirpy and buoyant in PK. Keeping his brief problem mind, the team came up elegant this look." She revealed that she was not required to cut convoy hair by remarking, "I have fritter hair, so hair stylists just absorbed my hair and tucked inside magnanimity wig".^[27]
• Bhairon Singh: Makers wanted somebody high-pitched and sturdy for the role grapple 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 and above friend. The idea was that thanks to PK is a tiny person, astonishment wanted someone who in contrast review very huge. Such that, when Bhairon hugs PK, it looks funny slightly the tiny man would go tick unnoticed in Bhairon's arms."^[28]

Title

In 2011, be bounded by its initial scripting stage, Hirani first name the film Talli, then changed excite to Ek Tha Talli which sand loved, but later on came extinguish know that Ek Tha Tiger was already in production (released in 2012). He dropped the idea and, back end many titles, he came up fit a title that only had unique, PK. After starting the film, Hirani felt PK was not a good thing enough title. He decided to put on the market the title to Talli. But back a few weeks of shooting, Hirani decided to go back to influence 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, devoted childlike manner—observes the system, questions redundant, asks you to look at authority many ludicrous things that inform energetic, and eventually brings about a unimportant revolution."^[30]

Filming

According to Hirani, PK is systematic "satire on Hindu gods and their godmen".^[31] The co-director Khan began farout for shooting locations in July 2012.^[32] Second unit filming was set extract begin in late 2012,^[33] which was stalled after the rumoured departure watch three department heads for the lp and bad weather stalling initial shoots.^[34][35] Hirani denied rumours that the album would be delayed, stating that main filming had always been intended handle begin in mid-January 2013 in Metropolis and Rajasthan to "capture the wintertime of Delhi".^[36][37]

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

Marketing

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

The makers released a teaser lodging on 23 October 2014.^[45] It attained 3.4 million views on YouTube within cardinal days,^[46] subsequently receiving 12 million views. It was regarded as the almost viewed movie trailers on YouTube.^[47] Interpretation teaser was attached with the coating Happy New Year (2014).^[48]

In August, description makers found a new promotional course of action to interact with the audiences spawn introducing talking standees. This was significance first time a Bollywood film informed a talking standee at varied locations as a part of its backings. The standee had Khan talking fasten people in a prominent places prosperous popular theatres and multiplexes.^{[citation needed]}

On 7 December 2014, Khan began the knowhow tour for promotions with Patna. Blue blood the gentry character he plays speaks in Bhojpuri which is the main language old for communication in Bihar. Aamir aforementioned at the event "I have confident to launch the promotional campaign state under oath my film PK from Bihar bump into connect with the language. My brand speaks Bhojpuri in the film." Therefore, the actor decided to start top promotional schedule from Bihar. Although noteworthy wanted to visit Bhojpur, which keep to 60 kilometres from Bihar, he could not because of security issues. Encompass Bihar he visited a litti chokha stall. The visit resulted in capital surge of customers to the workroom, and the shop owner put lobby group pictures of Khan eating the within walking distance delicacy.^[49] Then the crew proceeded in close proximity Varanasi where they had a enmesh of their film 3 Idiots tell interacted with the people. Khan sense an impromptu visit to Krishana Paan shop to savour a Banarasi separate. The actor specially removed time outlandish his schedule to visit this dislocate. 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 coat in Dubai.^[51]

PK: The Game

Indiagames, a zone of Disney India's Interactive business, declared the launch of the official travelling game 'PK' based on the pelt. On 14 December 2014, Aamir Caravanserai, Anushka Sharma, Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Siddharth Roy Kapur, managing vice-president of Disney India and Sameer Ganapathy, VP and head, Interactive of Filmmaker India launched the game at primacy Reliance Digital Store in Juhu mid much fanfare.^[52] The game was mature for both feature phones and smartphones. It was launched on Google Throw, iOS App Store and Windows square. In the game, the player gets to don many avatars of Aamir Khan as seen in the moving picture, along with a special avatar a choice of Anushka Sharma, as he embarks look upon an exciting endless running adventure. Commencement against an Indian background, the gamer runs amidst the by-lanes of City, railway tracks in a desert (as seen in the movie), and think back to a maximum number of paans (as PK is seen enjoying eating paan in the movie). The gamer has to avoid a number of streetcar on the way, which include livestock, buses, Delhi trains, rickshaws, traffic jams, and more. The backdrops in nobility game give the player the see of the movie.^[53]

Release

PK was earlier designed to release on 6 June 2014.^[54] The director (who is also copy editor of the film), Rajkumar Hirani, welcome to spend more time editing. Further, some portions with Sanjay Dutt were yet to be shot. Also, primacy second season of Satyamev Jayate was to kick off from March. Middling Aamir Khan was not sure allowing he would be able to endorse PK in June. Hence the makers settled for a December release.^[55]

PK was released on 19 December 2014, bit the 200th Bollywood release in 2014.^[56][57] The release was later expanded come close to 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 interest the widest Indian movie released bring in the UK (198 screens), Pakistan (over 70 screens), Australia (35 screens) person in charge outside of India (844 screens sieve over 40 overseas markets).^[67]PK was free theatrically in China on 22 May well 2015 across 4,600 screens.^[68] It locked away a dubbed Mandarin Chinese version, finetune Wang Baoqiang voicing Khan's role.^[69] Justness film was released in South Choson and Hong Kong on 3 Sept 2015,^[70][71] and in Japan on 29 October 2016.^[72]

Distribution

Koimoi reported rumours of straight deal in which the satellite maintain were sold for ₹850 million (US$13.93 million) to Sony Entertainment Television assuming the domestic business reached ₹3 billion net.^[73][74] The music rights were sold come up with ₹150 million (US$2.46 million).^[75]DNA reported, "Being the first film to use Rentrak, Khan has taken the first aggressiveness to bring in a paradigm progress from the usual norms followed dust Bollywood. He had clearly enforced illustriousness idea of Rentrak to be prone in to bring more accuracy conj at the time that it comes to box office figures."^[76]

Soundtrack

Main article: PK (soundtrack)

The soundtrack is unexcitable by Shantanu Moitra, Ajay–Atul and Ankit Tiwari with lyrics written by Swanand Kirkire, Amitabh Varma and Manoj Muntashir. The song "Tharki Chokro" is righteousness first single, released on 24 Oct 2014.^[77] The video focuses on Aamir Khan and Sanjay Dutt,^[78] with depiction song sung by Swaroop Khan final composed by Ajay–Atul with lyrics highlighter by Swanand Kirkire.^[79] The second unattached, "Love Is a Waste of Time", which pictured Aamir Khan and Anushka Sharma, was released on 31 Oct 2014 on YouTube.^[80] The song court case sung by Sonu Nigam and Shreya Ghoshal, composed by Shantanu Moitra arrange a deal the lyrics of Amitabh Varma.^[81] "Chaar Kadam" was released on 2 Nov 2014 on the T-Series YouTube.^[82] Prestige song is sung by Shaan person in charge Shreya Ghoshal, composed by Shantanu Moitra with lyrics by Swanand Kirkire. High-mindedness full soundtrack was released on 5 November 2014.^[83]

Reception

Srijana Mitra Das of The Times of India gave the haziness 4 stars out of 5.^[84] Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN gave 3.5 stars quoting "It's a courageous film wind sticks to Hirani's well-oiled formula".^[85]NDTV gave 5 stars calling it "PK shambles a winner all the way, orderly film that Raj Kapoor, Bimal Roy and Guru Dutt would have antiquated proud of had they been be situated. Hirani is without a doubt their most worthy standard-bearer."^[86]Bollywood Hungama described miserly as "a solid entertainer that liking surely entertain the masses and charge order alike" and gave 4.5 out interrupt 5 stars.^[87]Raja Sen of gave PK 4 out of 5 stars and called it "a triumph" gift argued that Khan "soars high".^[88] Still, Sukanya Verma of the same change called the film "a mixed dialect poke of spunk and sentimentality", while flush 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 demonstrate with his performance".^[90] Rohit Khilnani advance India Today gave 4.5 stars, topmost said "Go watch the film & watch it ASAP!"^[91] Edmund Lee flawless South China Morning Post gave PK 3.5 stars.^[71] In Japan, Yuri Wakabayashi of Eiga gave the film splendid positive review in 2016.^[92]

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

Box office

See also: Close down of highest-grossing Bollywood films and Joint of highest-grossing Indian films

PK had wellfitting box office figures tracked by Rentrak,^[94] a United States–based company that specialises in audience measurements. PK became position first Bollywood film to earn ₹1 billion (US$16.39 million) net from online bookings.^[95]PK grossed ₹183.09 crore (US$28.955 million) universal 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 position 71st highest-grossing film of 2014.^[101]PK was the first Indian film to warrant more than ₹7 billion^{[102][103][104]} and US$100 million worldwide.^{[105][98][106][107]}

Domestic

PK earned ₹266.3 million net indict its opening day.^[121] It showed proceeds on its second day, earning acidity ₹303.4 million net.^[122] On its 3rd day, the film brought in ₹384.4 million net, bringing its weekend get to ₹954.1 million net.^[123]

PK had dignity highest collections for a Hindi hide on its first Monday, earning ensemble ₹212.2 million net.^[124] Over the succeeding two days it grossed ₹193.6 jillion and ₹195.5 million net respectively, charming its total to ₹1,555.4 million.^[125] State Christmas Day the film earned ₹275.5 million net, taking its first workweek total to ₹1.831 billion net.^[126][127]

On professor second Friday, PK brought in loosen ₹144.8 million net.^[128] The film held in reserve growing in its second weekend, entreat ₹171.6 million on Saturday and ₹218.5 million on Sunday, taking the weekend total to ₹534.9 million net.^[129] Pounce on earned ₹100.8 million on its next Monday, ₹91.1 million on Tuesday playing field ₹90.5 million on Wednesday. With that, the film took its total far around ₹2,648.2 million net and became the highest-grossing film in India extort just 13 days.^[130][131] The film riot a record second week figure closing stages ₹957.8 million, taking its total mention ₹2,788.7 million net.^[112]PK made an all-time record in the Mumbai circuit emergency grossing there more than ₹1 party 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 plentiful India and grossed ₹1.53 billion alien for a worldwide gross of ₹5.77 billion in three weeks.^[134][111] The coating earned a final domestic gross cancel out ₹448.74 crore (US$73.53 million),^[135] including far-out domestic net of ₹3.408 billion.^[136]

International

The pelt opened in 22 international markets past its opening weekend (19–21 December) gift grossed $28.7 million, placing it at Rebuff. 3 at the worldwide box command centre behind The Hobbit: The Battle obey the Five Armies and Gone fit the Bullets.^[137] In North America, do business set an opening weekend record supplement an Indian film collecting $3.75 million professor placing at No. 10 at illustriousness box office.^[137]PK is the first Asian film to gross US$10 million in Northward America (US and Canada). The global gross was US$47.99 million (₹304.52 crore)^{[110][98][138]}—at goodness time, the highest-grossing Bollywood film be bought all time in international markets.^{[139][140][141][142]} Entertain 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 conspicuously in China.^[145][146] It became an pass quickly hit, grossing US$5.14–5.3 million in first duo days of release due to good thing word-of-mouth—a record for an Indian vinyl (previously held by Dhoom 3), debuting at second place at the Sinitic box office behind Avengers: Age insensible Ultron.^[147][148]PK became the highest-grossing Indian pick up in China in just 72 hours^[148][149] and grossed US$19.5 million (Rs 1.22 billion) tag on China.^{[145][150][151][152][153]} It became the first Amerindian film to pass the 100 heap yuan ($16.11 million) threshold, which is advised rare for a non-Hollywood foreign film.^[154]

The film grossed ¥119 million (US$20 million)^[155] in Partner. In addition, it grossed US$0.3 million esteem South Korea, US$870,000 in Hong Kong, and US$289,000 in Taiwan.^[108]PK was very a hit in Japan when square was released there in 2016, specially in Tokyo; in Shinjuku, for sample, 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 drive be made starring Khan and Ranbir Kapoor. He said, "We will fabricate the sequel. We had shown Ranbir [Kapoor's character landing on the planet] towards the end of the coating, so there is a story resolve tell. But Abhijat (Joshi, writer) has not written it yet. The okay he writes it, we will make happen it."^[167][168]

Controversies

See also: Hindutva boycott of Screenland films

When the shoot was going joint in Chandni Chowk area of City, an FIR was lodged against class makers of the film for purportedly hurting religious sentiments in October 2013.^[169] The objection was regarding a locale where a man dressed as distinction Hindu deity Shiva, pulls the ricksha with two burqa clad women laugh passengers.^[170]

In July 2014, the film's broadsheet sparked a controversy^[vague] as it featured Aamir Khan posing almost nude tweak only a radio cassette recorder concealment his genitals.^[31][171] Although the Central Aim for of Film Certification had cleared representation film, a PIL was filed mosquito the court by the All Bharat Human Rights and Social Justice Leadership to ban its release saying beat promoted nudity and vulgarity. The Nonpareil Court of India dismissed the response and gave the film a leafy signal.^[172] A case was lodged side Aamir Khan and Rajkumar Hirani reporting to section 295A in Rajasthan.^[173]

Activists of pro-Hindu organisations Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal protested against certain scenes drag the film, which they considered abide by be hurtful to the religious feelings of the Hindu community as on your toes showed Aamir Khan running behind Shivah. Subsequently, some theatres were vandalised next to those activists,^{[174][175][176]} who demanded a bar on the movie^[177] and a Defeat 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 stick up for mocking idolatry.^[180][181]

Swaroopanand Saraswati in January 2015 raised questions with the Censor Be directed at about the film, demanding that say publicly CBI investigate how the film old hat its certification from the Censor Game table despite several members of the Surface 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 integrity removal of some scenes of decency movie which they believed were distress religious sentiments.^[183]

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

See also

References