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[[File:PK poster.jpg|thumb|An [[Fish Out of Water|alien]] and his [[Scenery Censor|boombox]]]]
 
'''''PK''''' is a 2014 Sci-fi comedy [[Bollywood]] film, starred bystarring [[Aamir Khan]] and Anushka Sharma. It's a satire about religions in India.
 
OnIn India, one unnamed alien (Khan) arrives completely naked to the planet save for a medallion/control remote hung on his neck, only to watch helplessly howas a local man stealsteals it and runs away,; he only managingmanages to retain the thief's boombox. The same day, butsome 50005,000 kilometers away, in Bruges, Indian journalist Jaggu Sahni (Sharma) metsmeets and fallfalls in love with Sarfaraz Yousaf (Sushant Singh Rajput) , a Pakistani college student. When tellingshe tells her family about him, her father objects due to their cultural and religious differencedifferences and immediately consults a guru, Tapasvi Maharaj (Saurabh Shukla), who has had thehis hands on the Sahni family for years. When Tapasvi predicts that Sarfaraz will eventually betray Jaggu, she, enraged and determined to prove them wrong, immadiatelyimmediately proposes to Sarfaraz, who accepts. But on the day of their marriagewedding, Sarfaraz fails to appear, and Jaggu instead receives a letter calling off their relationship, leaving her heartbroken.
 
Six months later, Jaggu is back in India, working as a TV journalist, when heshe meets the alien, who is distributing leaflets searchedlooking by thefor "missing" gods. When she earns his trust, he tells his story. He was a researcher from another planet until he got stranded. After a series of misfortunes trying to find the robber and adapt to the environment, he eventually managed to get some working comprehension of the local costumescustoms with the help of bandmaster Bhairon Singh ([[Sanjay Dutt]]) and eventually managed to learn the local language via prolonged skin contact with a local prostitute. He adopts the nickname of PK (the Indian slang for drunkard) after being called that way too many times due to his questions and weird behavior. When he managed to explain his predicament, he was told "only God can help you", so he gets into looking for God, eventually getting to genuinely practice every Indian religion. Then he finally found his remote, but it was onin the hands of guru Tapasvi, who refuredrefused to giving it back because he claimed it was a "gift from God".
 
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* [[An Aesop]]: Having faith in some higher power isn't bad ''per se'', but using religion to hinder others is wrong.
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* [[Arc Words]]: "wrongWrong number".
 
* [[Auto Erotica]]: theThe "dancing cars" that let PK get clothing and money.
* [[Arc Words]]: "wrong number".
* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]. PK's species communicatescommunicate via skin contact., so he can gets information by touching other people. Doing this is what convinces Jaggu that he is an honest-to-god extraterrestrial. This biological characteristic did get him into trouble, because his attempts to hold ''any'' person's hand to get information about the local humanoids was minsinterpretedmisinterpreted as him [[Accidental Pervert|wanting innapropiateinappropriate sexual/romantic contact]] .
* [[Auto Erotica]]: the "dancing cars" that let PK get clothing and money
* [[Can Not Tell a Lie]]: PK. His species doesn't even need the concept, due to [[Bizarre Alien Biology|the way they communicate]]. {{Spoiler| He eventually learns, at least the [[Metaphorically True]] style.}}
* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]. PK species communicates via skin contact. so he can gets information by touching other people. Doing this is what convinces Jaggu that he is an honest-to-god extraterrestrial. This characteristic did get him into trouble, because his attempts to hold ''any'' person's hand to get information about the local humanoids was minsinterpreted as him [[Accidental Pervert|wanting innapropiate sexual/romantic contact]] .
* [[Crisis of Faith]]: PK's journey into experiencing every religion in India can be read as a variant of this, but he doesn't get fully hit with it until meeting guru Tapasvi and being swindled and humiliated by him.
* [[Can Not Tell a Lie]]: PK. His species doesn't even need the concept, due to [[Bizarre Alien Biology|the way they communicate]]. {{Spoiler| He eventually learns.}}
* [["Falling in Love" Montage]]: the number forThe "Chaar Kadam" sequence, where Jaggu and Sarfaraz fall withfor each other. Meanwhile, the number for "Love Is a Waste of Time" serves as one tofor PK falling in love with Jaggu.
* [[Fourth Date Marriage]]: Jaggu and Sarfaraz intended to have one, but it gets canceled when he fails to appear.
* [[Human Interest Story]] the sort of stuff Jaggu has to cover.
* [[Hiding Behind Religion]]: Tapasvi
* [[Innocent Aliens]]/[[Innocent Inaccurate]]: PK.
* [[IntrepidHow ReporterWe Got Here]]: what{{Spoiler|The Jaggufilm turns aspiresout to be. Hera bosspublic Cherryreading Bajwaby usedJaggu toof bea onebook backwhere inshe told the dayfull story, beforesome fallingtime onafter the bad side ofevents Tapasvifinished.}}
* [[Human Interest Story]]: theThe sort of stuff Jaggu has to cover.
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]
* [[Innocent Aliens]]/[[Innocent Inaccurate]]: PK. He doesn't know much about Earth, and for a long time, he also suffers from lack of context to interpret what he experiences.
* [[Intrepid Reporter]]: What Jaggu aspires to be. Her boss Cherry Bajwa used to be one back in the day, before falling on the bad side of Tapasvi.
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: Despite being very in love with Jaggu, PK decides to help her to reconcile with Sarfaraz by prompting her to call him during the debate between PK and Tapasvi.
* [[Naked on Arrival]]: PK
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: thisThis was revealed to be {{Spoiler|what actually happened between Sarfaraz and Jaggu. The letter she received wasn't intended for her, but for the other bride waiting in the register, and when he arrived late and didn't find her, he read the same letter and thought ''she'' was the one leaving ''him''.}}
* [[Scam Religion]]: Tapasvi Maharaj's cult, basically the Indian Hindu equivalent of American evangelical megachurches.
 
 
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