PK — Why the movie does not work for me

Agreed that the Aamir Khan starrer PK is making and breaking records by the day. But like his earlier film, Dhoom 3, I didn’t find much to my liking even here. The film has a soul, but is not soulful. In fact, I feel the length should have been cut by 30 minutes. The songs are nothing to remember by. And there no dialogues memorable enough to be cited.

The problem with the film is that it tries to find God in a multi-religious country like India and fails. Finally, the story ends with hope. If god gives hope, though present in different avatars for different religions, so be it. Quite a lame finale to what was turning out to be a rousing religious commentary. I was almost led to believe that the director would finally unravel god.

Ofcourse, I am using hyperbole. But the truth is that there are some laugh-out-loud moments and some grainy truths about religious gurus who masquerade as the representatives of god. But I still felt that OMG, the film by Paresh Rawal, did a better job of it. If this film was on similar lines, it did not excel as much as the Paresh Rawal film.

In PK, it almost feels like director Rajkumar Hirani started off on a grand premise but ends up giving nothing. I give it 2 stars on a scale of 5. Even Aamir’s acting in this film was below par.