The Alien Protagonist’s Home Truths: A Critical reading of R.K. Hirani’s ‘PK’

Abstract

Abstract

Mainstream Bollywood Cinema is often conceived to be through and through formulaic, a money minting consumer driven enterprise. However there always have been aberrations, formulas which have managed to rise above the formula and ruffle quite a few feathers. Even the candy floss brand of cinema is an endorsement of a certain politics. It is pertinent to quote here Asis Nandy who opines thus