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Jan 7, 2015 · His satire on world religion, PK – in 16th place on this week’s chart – breaches the $90m mark worldwide this week and in doing so becomes the highest grossing Bollywood film ever. It’s ...
Jan 4, 2016 · 1. Qadri: Films and Religion: An analysis of Aamir Khan’s PK. Published by DigitalCommons@UNO, 2016. (Rao & Raghavan, 1996). Based on a story from the Ma habharata, it wa s a stirring film ...
As film analyst Namrata Joshi put it, “Aamir is a superstar and that is why this movie has reached millions. It has made people think. Religion has been debated in many regional language films and earlier Bollywood films, but Aamir's presence has made the difference this time" (as cited in Pandey, 2014).
- Monisa Qadiri
Jan 4, 2016 · Every year, the Indian film industry produces the highest number of films in the world and also figures at the top position for ticket sales, but that does not make the society completely tolerant of how different issues are represented in films. That is a question which PK (2014), the biggest Bollywood grosser of all times, raised. This satirical comedy is based on challenging the superstitions labelled as religious practices in Indian society. India, being home to multiple religions and a ...
- Monisa Qadri, Sabeha Mufti
- 2016
Mar 29, 2016 · The film delves headfirst into the syncretic melee of different faiths in India and it takes direct aim at ‘godmen’, the guru figures who direct the followers towards following symbols of religion. Hindu groups have been considering it as a blasphemy against Hindu gods and gurus, because of which the film has had to plunge into controversies.
PK (translation: Drunk) is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language science fiction comedy-drama film edited and directed by Rajkumar Hirani and written by Hirani and Abhijat Joshi and jointly produced by Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra under the production banners of Rajkumar Hirani Films and Vinod Chopra Films, respectively. A religious satire, the film ...
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Jan 4, 2015 · BANGALORE — “PK”, a Bollywood satire on organised religion, is now the highest grossing Bollywood domestic film of all time. Starring Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan, the December 19 release ...
