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Post by emily on Jan 7, 2015 16:10:31 GMT
Did I miss something? Netflix says Anushka is a "pretty prostitute" Haha. Initial reports said that her character was supposed to be a prostitute. Wellllp, there was one in the movie, but it wasn't her...
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rahul
Dancing in the chorus
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Post by rahul on Jan 8, 2015 17:50:59 GMT
I saw this PK Joke on twitter which I liked
Why was PK an extraterrestrial?
When Raju's mom married Farhan's Dad, Rancho went into shock and decided to leave earth!
To understand the Joke, you have to watch 3 idiots.
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Post by corbie on Mar 9, 2015 23:23:28 GMT
Has the DVD been released yet? I found it on a couple of sites, but thinking they are bootlegs.
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Post by emily on Mar 10, 2015 5:14:57 GMT
It's not available on MyIndiaShopping for several days now. You can pre-order, though!
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Post by corbie on Mar 11, 2015 3:21:06 GMT
Never heard of them. I looked and all in rupees. I love Induna, but no longer order as with shipping from India, not feasible to order just one or two. I had a good place on Ebay, but gone. Amazon is really expensive. Do we still have the DVD shopping thread?
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Post by newbiefan on Apr 20, 2015 2:12:37 GMT
I liked this film much more than I had anticipated. I found 3 Idiots from the Aamir-Hirani combo nice but nothing special, and I didn't like the similar themed OMG, so I wasn't expecting to like this one much, especially after all those comments online about how this is Hirani's weakest film. It started out really strongly, and while it got a bit more preachy later, I didn't mind because I agreed with what the film was saying. Immediately after watching PK I decided to go back and rewatch OMG to see why I liked PK so much more. One big problem with OMG is that it reaffirms the existence of god and his involvement and interest in human affairs. PK's ambiguity on this point works much better IMO. It leaves open the possibility that there is no god, that prayers aren't answered because there is no one to answer them, rather than god being turned off by the insincerity/greed of the mortal looking for favors from him, as OMG implies. The message "be nice and generous to your fellow human beings, and don't defend your god so much, he can take care of himself" is common to both movies, but PK acknowledges that the sincere, ardent prayers of those in really dire situations are sometimes met with silence and it is not clear why god won't answer those prayers. Paresh Rawal's character Kanjibhai asks a similar question in court in OMG (how come god allows bad things to happen to those who are deeply devout, like a bus carrying pilgrims that meets with an accident that kills everyone on board), but the fraudulent godmen present there have no satisfactory answer. Normally this would count as a positive for OMG in my book, except that this point gets nullified later when Akki reveals himself as god and Kanji doesn't ask him the tough questions, and instead becomes all overwhelmed and devout instead. In OMG we end up with the following- {Click to view!} a) God exists and he pays enough attention to human affairs to notice Kanjibhai's atheism and orchestrates events that lead to Kanjibhai moving court. He even takes up residence in Kanjibhai's apartment. b) In court, Kanjibhai asks pointed questions about god's failure/reluctance to move swiftly to help people who believe in him. c) God makes no attempt to answer these pointed questions, either in court or privately in Kanjibhai's apartment. He is a mute spectator during Kanji's attacks and lets the fake swamijis handle these. d) Instead when he reveals himself to Kanjibhai late in the movie, the latter becomes a true believer and doesn't ask him any tough questions. e) God says something along the lines of how he resents "exchange offers", where people pray to him for favors in exchange for offerings. He makes it sound like the people praying are greedy and not in real need. f) The main thrust of the message is that godmen are fake and greedy and god doesn't approve of them, so people should not flock to these babas and instead should show their devotion by treating needy humans kindly. This arc is really unsatisfactory to me. If god exists, as this movie posits, then he should have to answer for all the inequality and injustice he allows in this world. Why are devout people supposed to feed the hungry beggars? Why are the beggars in such a position that they are reduced to begging in the first place? How can a merciful god allow this? How can he let those fake godmen prosper while innocent children die miserable deaths? The movie lets god off the hook too easily. PK sidesteps this by not inserting god into the situation, and leaves these unanswerable questions hanging in the air. This results in a richer movie that better reflects the problems with belief and faith.
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