Aamir Khan’s PK was like Inception, recollects Rajkumar Hirani; director reveals what he did after recognizing similarities with Christopher Nolan’s movie

Rajkumar Hirani, certainly one of Bollywood’s most famed administrators, is thought for delivering blockbuster movies like Munna Bhai MBBS and three Idiots. Whereas engaged on PK, initially deliberate with Aamir Khan as an alien, he revealed in a current interview that he needed to modify the script because it bore placing similarities to Christopher Nolan’s Inception.

Rajkumar Hirani revealed that whereas engaged on the script for PK, the discharge of Inception made him notice the placing similarities between the 2 movies. To keep away from any allegations of plagiarism, he selected to transform the storyline. In a dialog with Galatta Plus, he shared that PK initially had an idea the place the protagonist might enter individuals’s minds and alter their previous experiences, in the end altering their perspective on life.

Nonetheless, he and his staff quickly acknowledged that this concept carefully resembled Inception, main them to change the script to make sure originality.

Hirani mentioned that after recognizing similarities with Inception, they tried a brand new story the place PK results in a courtroom. “We began writing one thing else. Then OMG – Oh My God got here, which can be… We had waked that path additionally, of him going to the courtroom. So the second half saved on altering,” he mentioned.

The filmmaker revealed that they experimented with a number of variations for the second half of the movie however had been unable to discover a satisfying consequence. He talked about that though they initially filmed it, he was not solely happy with the outcome. In consequence, they ended up reshooting practically 20 minutes of footage, which considerably added to the manufacturing timeline.

In one other interview with ETimes, Rajkumar revealed that the staff intentionally selected to maintain the movie’s central theme of God and faith undisclosed earlier than its launch. He talked about that they wished the viewers to find it organically fairly than revealing it upfront.

Hirani additionally famous that this secrecy led to numerous speculations, with individuals assuming the film might be about an alien, a drunkard, or an eccentric character performed by Aamir Khan.

PK featured Anushka Sharma, Sushant Singh Rajput, and Sanjay Dutt in key roles. It emerged because the highest-grossing Bollywood movie of 2014.