Khan, who possesses one of Hindi cinema’s most ogled bodies, is another man-boy innocent meant to remind us of our own corruption. PK, played with earnest sexlessness by Mr. Hirani remains an excellent storyteller, weaving his disparate story strands into a convincing, satisfying whole - a rare Bollywood feat.īut “PK” lacks the redemptive arc of “Lage Raho” - at least its hero does. It’s hard to imagine that “PK,” with its slogan “wrong number” (when God’s interlocutors get their wires crossed), will have a similar impact. That movie and its slogan, “Gandhigiri,” were so successful that they ushered in a small real-life wave of Gandhian protests. Hirani’s other films include “Lage Raho Munna Bhai” (2006), a comedy about a gangster who becomes a Gandhi-inspired good guy. Sneaking into a maternity ward, he examines an infant from top to bare bottom, looking for a label: is he Christian, Muslim, Hindu? Guileless, he appeals to God in all his houses: temples, mosques, churches.
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