Analysing films

PK takes off from where Raju Hirani (the director of PK) finished 3 Idiots and Aamir Khan wrapped up the last season of Satyamev Jayate. In effect, both these protagonists carried forward the baggage of their past and rehashed it into PK. And boy it does work; at least for the masses or so it seemed sitting in the cinema hall and watching the audience lap up every bit of the satire and gags strewn in and everything in between. This is where Hirani seems to have got the pulse of his audience. Starting with the Munnabhai series, 3 Idiots and now with PK he has been able to kind of get the science of box office chemistry, effectively. In the long term, critics (me included) will sneer at these thoughts of creating templated success. But who cares? Least of all, does it matter? Yet one does tend to feel, somewhere, good cinema is about breaking norms, the fixed ideas and established traditions (See Boyhood, the sleeper Hollywood hit of 2014). But for now, Hirani rules the roost and he d

Well! The film loses its plot even before it started, or perhaps. It looks really like an extension of one those numerous TVF virals floating on youtube. What could have been a good and immersing film, seems to be lost in a moment of interlude, prelude or perhaps a idea gone wrong through someone trying to be a cool dude (did not sound very TVF!). Jokes apart there is nothing home to write about the movie, except for some occasional good acting from the very talented Aditi Vasudev (Do Dooni Chaar fame) and the two leads, Naveen Kasturia and Mayank Vasudev. It looks like an experimentative film and takes it's moment to build. Yet the length of the movie being about 90 minutes, does not seem to have given the space to have built it. The background score and the songs do kind of stay on for some time. The leads try and justify but the dialogues do not justify, unfortunately! There also seems to be attempt on creating starkness in the visuals and at times even trying to create m