Aamir Khan’s alienation from society.
By The American Bazaar Staff
WASHINGTON, DC: The new video of the highly anticipated film by Rajkumar Hirani ‘PK’ starring Aamir Khan, makes at least one thing clear: the character of Khan doesn’t have a name; it’s society which gave him one – a disoriented drunkard, alias PK, which translates in Hindi as somebody who is drunk.
Through the video, one can also make out that Khan lands in jail, and the character of Anushka Sharma, Jagat Janani, visits him in jail, more likely as a social advocate fighting for the rights of the poor and the displaced than as a lawyer, or maybe as both. The name of Jagat Janani translates in Hindi again as a worldly woman. Juxtapose that with the image of Khan, a total nobody, who is the epitome of the village idiot, and the dynamics between the two becomes clearer.
While the real plot of the film will be revealed in its entirety only when the film is released, with all the bits and pieces of the promos being released, the film is getting demystified too.
Here are a few more conjectures to add to the ones which are already floating around, including one from our all-knowing Mr. Bada Jasoos, whose commentary on how PK came about can also be read here: http://www.americanbazaaronline.com/2014/11/17/aamir-khan-sexually-deprived-alien-pk/
Like the story in Munnabhai MBBS, Hirani may have gone back to the idea of the simple soul living in a tough looking body, wishing good upon society, as depicted by Sunjay Dutt. It could be that Hirani, though Aamir Khan in PK, will try to portray India’s new-found reality: a nation in moral disarray as it tries to grapple with the consumerism and lifestyle of the West, with the erosion of the simple ways of rural India.
It could also be that PK is an alien, who tries to find solace on Earth, but gets disillusioned with the corrupt and harsh ways of society, and then finds happiness with Jagat Janani, who discovers the real gem he is, much like the female leads in the Munnabhai films discovered about the uncouth youth who has a golden heart.
It seems more than likely though, that PK might turn out to be a feel good film, and make viewers empathize with society, and its lesser known heroes, the people of the rural heartland.
It’s no wonder that Khan is starting his promotional tour of PK, by doing the rounds in the Bhojpuri heartland, with people who are known to be simple living, happy with their rural existence, and discomfited by the invasion of modern India and its upward mobility class of people.