PK (Movie)

Comedy Drama Fantasy Sci-Fi

PG-13

India

Hindi

December 19, 2014

2hr 32min

Status: released

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PK (Movie) Movie Details:

Country	India
Language	Hindi
Genre	Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Release date	19 December 2014
Running time	2hr 32min
Certificate	PG-13
Starring	Aamir Khan Anushka Sharma Sushant Singh Rajput Boman Irani Saurabh Shukla Sanjay Dutt Narrated by Anushka Sharma
Directed by	Rajkumar Hirani
Written by	Rajkumar Hirani Abhijat Joshi
Produced by	Vidhu Vinod Chopra Rajkumar Hirani
Cinematography by	C. K. Muraleedharan
Edited by	Rajkumar Hirani
Music by	Songs:Shantanu Moitra Guest Composers:Ajay-Atul Ankit Tiwari Background Score:Sanjay Wandrekar Atul Raninga
Production Company	Vinod Chopra Films Rajkumar Hirani Films
Distributor	UTV Motion Pictures

PK (Movie) Movie Cast & Characters:

Aamir Khan at the Radio Station 92.7’s studio in Mumbai
Aamir Khan as PK (“Drunk”); a humanoid alien
Anushka Sharma as Jagat “Jaggu” Janani Sahni; a journalist and Sarfaraz’s girlfriend and later his Wife
Sushant Singh Rajput as Sarfaraz Yousuf; Jaggu’s boyfriend and later her husband
Boman Irani as Cherry Bajwa; Jaggu’s employer
Saurabh Shukla as Tapasvi Maharaj; a self-proclaimed godman
Sanjay Dutt as Bhairon “Bhaia” Singh; a bandmaster in Rajasthan and PK’s friend
Parikshit Sahni as Jayprakash Sahni; Jaggu’s father
Amardeep Jha as Mrs. Sahni; Jaggu’s mother
Ram Sethi as the Old Man in Belgium who tricked Sarfaraz and Jaggu
Sai Gundewar as the Ticket Seller of the Bachchan show in Belgium
Rohitash Gaud as Mr. Pandey; a police constable
Reema Debnath as Phuljhadiya; a prostitute
Sachin Parikh as Tapasvi’s manager
Arun Bali as the Old Sikh man in a restaurant
Kamini Kaushal as the Old Woman in a restaurant
Michael Pekala as Bystander in the train station
Rukhsaar Rehman as the Receptionist at Pakistani Embassy in Belgium
Plabita Borthakur as Jaggu’s younger sister
Anil Mange as a Man dressed as Lord Shiva
Brijendra Kala as an Idol seller at a Delhi Temple
Alok Pandey as a Reporter
Rajeev Gupta as a Police Inspector
Monali Thakur as a Kashmiri Girl
Maanvi Gagroo as Meetu Singh; Jaggu’s colleague
Shaji Choudhary as Tapasvi’s bodyguard
Ranbir Kapoor in a cameo appearance as a fellow alien from PK’s home planet

Storyline:

The plot follows an innocent alien (Aamir Khan) who lands on Earth but loses his communication device. He meets Jaggu (Anushka Sharma), a heartbroken reporter, and tries to find his device. With time, he raises many thought-provoking questions.

PK (Movie) Movie Box Office Collection & Budget:

Budget	₹122 crore
Worldwide Collection	₹770 crore

About PK (Movie) Movie:

After the success of 3 Idiots (2009), Hirani and Joshi 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 initially titled Talli and later Ek Tha Talli before being changed to PK as the latter title was found to be too similar to Ek Tha Tiger (2012).

According to Hirani, PK is a “satire on Hindu gods and their godmen”. The co-director Khan began looking for shooting locations in July 2012. Second unit filming was set to begin 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 one-week schedule of shooting of PK was in June 2013 in Bruges, Belgium. A 26-day schedule of shooting of PK started in Delhi from 27 September 2013.

PK was the first Bollywood film to be shot in Belgium.

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 (2013).

In PK, Amir Khan played nine avatars and, during the course of the film, the he had to chew over 10,000 betelnut preparations called paan. He would at times eat about 100 paans in a day. They had a paanwala [a paan maker] on the sets.

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

The makers released 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.

PK was produced on a budget of ₹1.22 billion.
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.

PK was the first Indian film to gross more than ₹7 billion and US$100 million worldwide. At the time of its release, it emerged as the highest-grossing Indian film of all time. The film’s final worldwide gross was ₹769.89 crore (US$118.92 million). It currently stands as the 8th highest grossing Indian film of all time. and 9th highest-grossing film in India.

Junaid Khan, son of Aamir Khan worked as an assistant director in this film.

Indiagames, a part of Disney India’s Interactive business, announced the launch of the official mobile game ‘PK’ based on the film. The game was developed for both feature phones and smartphones. It was launched on Google Play, iOS App Store and Windows platform.

Director Hirani has confirmed that a sequel will be made starring Khan and Ranbir Kapoor. He said, “We will make the sequel. We had shown Ranbir [Kapoor’s character landing on the planet] towards the end of the film, so there is a story to tell. But Abhijat (Joshi, writer) has not written it yet. The day he writes it, we will make it.”

PK Movie Tracklist:

The film’s soundtrack is composed by Shantanu Moitra, Ajay−Atul and Ankit Tiwari with lyrics written by Swanand Kirkire, Amitabh Varma and Manoj Muntashir.