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English department

Movie Rievew

Film PK

A humanoid alien lands on Earth on a research mission in Rajasthan but is stranded when his
beacon to his spaceship, a locket around his neck, is stolen. On the same day in Bruges, Jaggu falls
in love with a man named Sarfaraz Jaggu's father objects to their relationship because Sarfaraz is a
Muslim from Pakistan; he consults godman Tapasvi Maharaj who predicts that Sarfaraz will betray
Jaggu. Determined to prove them wrong, Jaggu proposes to Sarfaraz. She is heart-broken at the
wedding chapel when she receives a letter calling off the marriage due to their differences. She
returns to India where she becomes a television reporter.

Jaggu meets the alien and becomes intrigued while watching him distributing leaflets about a
missing God. He attempts to learn to communicate by grabbing peoples' hands and absorbing their
memories through touch . The Alien , learns to fit in among humans by wearing clothes and using
money that he steals from couples having sex in "dancing cars". One day, a passenger vehicle
carrying bandmaster Bhairon Singh strikes him and renders him unconscious. Bhairon takes him to
a doctor who declares the alien as a person suffering from amnesia.

Having learned to communicate, the alien then retraces the steps of the thief who stole his remote
and travels to Delhiin search of the remote. Due to his strange behavior, the people in the city
assume he is tipsy (tipsy translates to pee-kay in Hindi) and call him PK, a name he adopts. PK
then begins his search to find God, but is confused by India's diverse religions and their confusing
traditions. After hearing PK's story, Jaggu devises a plan to expose Tapasvi and recover PK's
remote.

Bewildered, PK concludes that Tapasvi and other religious heads must be dialling a "wrong number"
to communicate with God and are, as a result, spreading misunderstandings and advising the public
to engage in meaningless rituals. Jaggu encourages thousands of people to send in videos of their
own experiences with religious heads, calling them "wrong numbers". Meanwhile, PK contacts
Bhairon Singh who says he will come to Delhi the next day, but dies in a bomb planted by terrorists
to protect their faith in retaliation to PK's protests. After massive public appeals, Tapasvi is forced to
come into the studio and confront PK on-air. Tapasvi claims he has a direct connection to God and
refers to his prediction of Sarfaraz's betrayal as proof. However, PK, who had earlier absorbed
Jaggu's memories, discovers that Sarfaraz did not write the letter she received. Jaggu contacts the
Pakistan Embassy in Belgium where Sarfaraz worked part-time; the embassy tells her that Sarfaraz
still loves her and calls them daily to inquire whether she has called. Jaggu and Sarfaraz reconnect
and Tapasvi, exposed as a fraud, is forced to return PK's device.

In the course of the film, PK falls in love with Jaggu but refrains from telling her because she loves
Sarfaraz. He instead records tapes of her voice and fills his suitcases with batteries so that he can
listen to the tapes on his home planet. While departing, he lies to Jaggu regarding the content of the
tapes; Jaggu, despite knowing the truth, keeps quiet. She later publishes a book about PK.