Aamir Khan’s PK is on a historic run at the overseas box office, what with the film matching the business generated by Dhoom 3 and at places even beating the collections of the 2013 Christmas release.
The PK wave is so huge that it has beaten the lifetime overseas collections in just 2 days. It has also gone past the collections of decent overseas grossers like 2 States and Holiday: A Solider Is Never Off Duty.
By the end of its first weekend, PK could beat the overseas collections of other Aamir films like Talaash ($9 million), Ghajini ($7.75 million) and Fanaa ($7.1 million). PK is already Aamir’s 6th highest overseas grosser and we are talking about just 2 days of business – with several centres yet to be reported.
Aamir has well and truly emerged as the biggest draw in the international markets. It remains to be seen if PK can beat the 1st (Dhoom 3) and 2nd (3 Idiots) highest overseas grossers of all time.
Below is the Friday and Saturday collections of PK in various overseas territories. Approx estimate collections, several screens yet to be reported!
- USA / Canada – 15.1 crore
- United Kingdom – 4.25 crore
- United Arab Emirates – 8 crore
- Pakistan – 4.45 crore
- Australia – 2.5 crore
- Others – 2 crore
- Total – 36.3 crore
Phenomenal !!! #Salute from an SRK fan.
PK ho kya…awesome movie.
Great collections!
again 100 cr movie in overseas…
hope movie will cross 150 cr in overseas….
PK rocking all the world….
Ha ha ha aamir khan is got the all 3 biggest movies in oversease and no doubt he is the best,
But srk fans thinking he is the biggest hero in oversease, lol may be his fans is putting him in the league of ayushman, jimmy shergill, sayed khan, sohail khan
Ha ha ha ha ha
Good going AK and PK.
@Zeeshan – very heartening to see appreciation from a srk fan……..its so silly that they all get along with each other or atleast are cordial with each other and we fans end up fighting even abusing each other……
films are for entertainment…….high time we all rise above fan wars and jointly appreciate good films…..its depressing, atleast for me, when people say that bollywood films are not even comparable to hollywood films…..nothing against hollywood but we want bollywood to be equally good if not better than any other film industry in the world!
PK review by lokesh malhotra(element) :-
Story:-
A whimsical man PK finds himself in some funny situations. He challenges the system and religious traditions in some unusual ways. This creates havoc in god’s middlemen mainly (saurabh shukla) . This results in lot of clowny(hirani-like) situations. Basically, film has no story but a join-up of situations n scenes which makes it an excruciating watch. Find it out in theatres.
Acting:-
Amir excels n leads all other actors in PK. His best performance till date !! Anushka is neither good nor bad in her role. Sanjay dutt, saurabh shukla, sushant and boman iraani,ranbir play there small roles well.
Music:-
songs r in-sync with the script. Tharki-chhokro n 4 kadam are the best picturised. Love is a waste of time is a drag. U don’t need to mention about music in hirani-amir film.
Verdict:-
Agreed that film is not better than hirani’s previous films, But in my opinion, u should ignore hiran’s previous work. PK is the best big film of 2014. U should definitely watch it on big screen n stop piracy. Cinematography was perfect. Dialogues though not the best, but were razor sharp. Some scenes remain with u n u would want to relive them again for repeat watch. Overall , a superb film n will end ur year on a big smile. A perfect treat for ur christmas. Go watch!
Ratings:-
3.75/5
It will beat d3 overseas collection. Pk everywhere…..
I am a very biggest fan of SRK but really loved this movie because of the concept. It really preaches Islam to the whole world. I really want this movie to cross 300 crores..I will be very proud that the message was really appreciated by my hindu and christian friends and understand the true God who created all of us and Not the one whom we create with our own hand ie Idols.
Wow so nice movie
Absolutely great thats is what doing good movies make you, take note akki. overseas audience apreciate good films and if an actor has a reputation of cult movies like aamir and srk they will come in numbers.currently akki is trying good films after years of total craps and the reputation of films like joker, tmk and khiladi 786 have completely shattered his image in the world.
yy Mithaiwala’s review of pk:
pk, is well made yet weakest product from hirani, with a
heart touching performance from aamir, says mithaiwla.
don’t want to say anything about what it’s and what was expected,
so let’s start from story first.
story:An alien PK (Aamir Khan) lands on earth but gets stranded in Rajasthan
as his spaceship’s remote control device gets stolen. He get’s befriended by
Bhairon Singh (Sanjay Dutt) who helps PK try to adjust to Earth customs.
PK learns to speak Bhojpuri by holding hands of a lady and using his supernatural
power of mind reading. PK goes to Delhi where he figures out that a Godmen Tapasvi Maharaj (Saurabh Shukla) now owns his device and fooling people that he got it from Himalayas.
PK meets a tv reporter Jagat Janani (Anushka Sharma) and tell her the whole story and
they both end up confronting the godman.
The First Half : first half of the film starts well, with aamir being shown as
an alien. but it would have been better if they would have kept this a bit secret
about weather he is alien or something else. and would have shown it in the story,
which was told by Aamir to Anushka.the song turky chokro is forced in the the film
and wasn’t needed, and anushka and sushant’s love story could have been shown better.
screenplay in the first half is good, but it’s hirani’s direction which is simply
flawles in the first half.Hirani, is simply master when it comes to mixing emotions
with comedy on screen, and the innocence of pk will touch you.
MY Rating For First Half: 4/5 (classic)
The 2nd Half: here the problem starts in the 2nd half. rajkumar hirani
rocks in the first half, when he tells story of an alien in search of his
romote control, but as mentioned by others he fails to do as well as
first half when he shows love of pk towards jaggu and how pk gets his
romote controle back. the 2nd half of the film is poorly written, and add
some unnecessory drama.there was also one flaw in the film where that
muslim girl says that in Islam girls are not allowed to educate, it’s wrong
information.
MY Rating for 2nd half : 3/5(good)
performances : all of actors are first-rate in thier roles. but the soul of pk, is
definetly aamir. he will leave you speechless in some scenes, overall he is excelent.
anushka, also delievers one of his best performances, he is very good as is surabh shukla.
My Rating : 3.5/5(well-made)
PK Review:
After watching PK…one must say that Raj Kumar Hirani without any doubts is No.1 director in the Bollywood Today. A 4 movie old director takes Bollywood movies to such an standard that puts all big names in Bollywood into shame. Why does Bollywood takes so long to produce a good entertainer. This is something because we never push them to do so. Doing action masala movies repeatedly is denting the Bollywood standards big time. However who cares about them unless you get your money back.
Coming to PK: It is not the best movie of Aamir Khan or Raj Kummar Hirani, but it is far by the best movie this year. A big star cast with good message and entertainer is all that is expected and you get it.
The first half of the movie reminds you of Terminator, Koi Mil Gaya but with never seen avatar of human minded alien who loses his signal transmitting device that communicates with his spaceship. Rest of first half deals with how he goes on searching for it. He ends up praying to all GODS to get the device back. When he fails, he tries to convey an message in society that you need to get your logic’s right while executing any activity instead of praying to GODS.To support this, the movie has a love story that has Anushka and Sushant. Sanjay Dutt was good in his supporting role. This movie has its part of let downs as well in terms of entertainment. But strong content takes it to a safe level…
Coming to positives and negatives:
Positives:
1) Raj Kumar Hirani Direction/Execution – He is the ultimate Hero of the movie, who tries to bring a strong message through a never seen before story. Hats off…
2) Aamir Khan: No one can be so perfectionist in executing any role as he does. His was a top-notch performance…
3) Story – I always like to see never seen before things. I am totally against those routine action masala’s. PK’s story is very good..
Negatives:
1) Songs are big letdown. Not even one song is catchy on which you can go gaga.
2) Sushant wasted. Hardly in movie for 10 minutes. After Kai Po Che expectations from him is more.
3) 2nd half should have been more entertaining.
Over and over the movie is good interesting watch with strong content and strong performances… A must see…I go with a rating of 3.5 stars of 5.
Looser indian hindu public.Looser aamir. If u have guts make film on anti islam. Now anti islam movie called baby is coming. It wont earn more than 110 cr coz of our looser public. Anti hindu earns more in india than anti islam.
p.k will crosd 150 cr. in overseas
@zeeshan respecXxXx
@Zeeshan Good comment.Hope our friend @Iamakn understand now that 2 days collection in overseas is 36 crores not 15 crores as said by him
Just watched PK film.Here comes My Review.
Pk Is undoubtly the most awaited film of the year due to Brand Raju Hirani attached to it.With Superstar like Aamir,Talented Shushant and Anushka,Lovable Munnabhai.Does movie lift to the expectation.Let’s find out.
Aamir is an alien who came to earth but not able to go back to his planet due to circumstances.His most important thing is theft and he was in search for them.In his journey he met with Sanjay duty and Anushka Dharma.There is also a love connection of Sushant and Anushka.The whole of the plot is written that how pk sees the world from his senseblity.How he able to get his lost thing back we get to know at the climax of the film.
Pk has been directed by Best director of our times Raju Hirani.He did very good work as the director not not up to his standard which is very high.The film is hilarious in first half that how Pk juggles between religion and God to get his things back.But problem start in second half where he didn’t able to keep viewers interest like first half.It doesn’t mean that second half is bad or averages but it is strictly good not excellent like first half and the biggest reason was the similarity with OMG which was a superb satire on same topic.If PK comes early than OMG this 2nd half could be major strength of pk.
Overall the screenplay was very good.
Also Aamir-Anushka love track can be avoided.
Coming to performances PK is Aamir Khan show all the way.The way he speaks,his expression and body language,his cuteness everything is just perfect,no one can do this role better than him.By far his best performance since 3i.Best from this year.
Anushka was fantastic as jaggu,she had a lengthy and important character.Saurabh shukla was first rate but I hope better act from him as the talented actor he is.Boman Irani and shushant has very limited role and both were good.Sanjay Duty Cameo was vest among the supporting cast.He was superb as Rajasthani band wala.
Music was not popular but it goes well with mood of the film,Bhagwan kahah h re tu is stand out,its picturization was damn perfect and it simply gives the theme of the film.
Cinematography,location everything was great.Back ground score is excellent and complement the situation well.
So overall PK is comes as a slight disappointment for me if I compare with munns bhai and specially 3i but still it is by far the best film of the year,here I am talking about commercial films which appeal large section of audiences.
At last when the movie ends and credit rolls Crowd has given clapping and ovation to film which is symbol that audience loved the film which is major stregth,I will go with 3.5/5 for the film.
Its standard of Raju hirani that not is his best work is still better than work of any director or we can say its a spit on our film industry that we arexrely only one director who can entertain a vast majority of audience with the film.
Final work PK is definitely a superb film which has potential to be highest grosser as well as Significant film for Bollywood.
If you guys are interested in well intentioned humor and great cinema,You won’t disappointed with PK but don’t compare it with 3i.
Must watch.
No brand this time and half budget movie compared to dhoom 3 but still huge collection in overseas which shows that aamir is a huge star in overseas
We the overseas fans watch the big ticket films but in last few years I have seen Aamirs films being viewed by more audiences in places where Srk n Akki (his punjabi orientated films were a huge draw for punjabi audiences afew yrs back) were the main attraction. Hes leading the market in the US but UK is still a close call as Diwali releases are Big here so srk wins there due to his releases being around that time. Both are miles ahead so good form guys.
I think PK can do 100 CR business from overseas . This time i am happy that a good content oriented movie is getting successful at the Box Office . The main problem with PK is the expectations of people from Rajkumar Hirani . All this 3 movies Munnabhai MBBS, LRMB and 3 Idiots were brilliant movies . So definitely PK is not the best movie of Raju Hirani and it is also not the best movie of Aamir Khan . But i will not say PK is a bad movie . But it lacks impact because of the 2nd half . The 2nd Half is similar to OMG which was one of the best movies of recent times . I was reading some of the comments and someone was saying that what is the problem with Satire/Religion genre ? He said only 2 movies of this kind have been made in Bollywood . But i just want to say OMG is a movie which was released 2 years back in 2012 . It is not that there is a huge gap between PK and OMG . If this movie would have been made before OMG it would have been a masterpiece .
Just 2 day before on 18th, I said it is last day of celebration for Aamir haters,And I know I was right.
When the first day figures out,people start to say movie failed blah blah,now look the figures guys.
2 year earlier Dabangg 2 released on 21 DEC 2012,it was a mass entertainer with biggest release at the time of 3500 screens,collected 60cr in first weekend domestic while it was a mass entertainer with extremely popular movie sequal.
3 years earlier Don 2 which again a sequal of a film which prequal itself was remake released on 23rd DEC 2011, with 2700 screen (highest that time) including 350-400 3d screens, as we know 3d screen rates were higher than normal rates collected 48 cr in 3 days.
Why I am talking about these films is because both Dabangg 2 and Don 2 was sequal of successful film having two superstar Salman and srk respectively whose fans claims they alone is ahead than anybody.Both Don 2 and Dabangg 2 were highest non holiday opener that time, now last year released Dhoom 3 became not only highest opener of non-holiday but also of all time which all India figures is still highest than any film till date.
Now with pk when trade figure suggest 56cr also officials are also same that weekend is around 90 cr+ which is higher than trade figure of full fledged holiday rekease CE 87 cr without previews.While PK is not the biggest release ever,even Indicine admit that screen count is less than kick and hny.
Despite being film is multiplex oriented it simply outshined the figure of last year holiday film CE still Aamir haters saying he has no stardom.
With a sequal of successful film both srk and salman on this period just got the same faith at box office which Aamir got a brand dhoom or hirani than I don’t think there fan has any right to bash Aamir stardom.
Even high ticket rates or other factor count the 80% higher figure than Don 2 and 50% higher dabangg 2 it suggest even in worst case pk has same footfalls which these two film had.
Still Aamur has no stardom, an bhai issue jyada stardom to kaisi ki nahi h agar Aamir ki stardom nahi h.
And please don’t say that Dabamgg and Don are not brand at least It has biggest two brand if Bollywood what else you want more.
P.S.-nothing against srk and salman stardom but a strictly some fact and you can say anger of die hard Aamir fan like me.
Guys don’t degrade someone like Aamir who from 11 years has given wonderful films back to back like Lagaan,dch,fanaa,rdb,tzp,3i,talaash and pk.
And two big box office earner of a time with masala films Dhoom 3 and Ghajini.
Respect to all the fans who given their genuine review, Specially srk fans like zeeshan,I m srk fan,miyhaiwala etc.You guys rocks.Respect.
It been overwhelming to see the huge figure on overseas that too when Christmas is yet to started and this is a time when there were more work in offices and schools due to Christmas period has to begin.Still two days collection are highest on non holiday.Where is @sss,@iamakn,@romance and @kingshuk. Now open blind eyes,Srk got a true competitor at boxoffice who is now looking ahead of him.
I am happy today because ultimately more than box office I want that PK will win hearts and it doing. Now whether it cross dhoom 3,kick or hny et .I don’t care.If it could than I am more than happy otherwise fine. Cheers.
Samir without doubt is the true global superstar from India…. Others are just to fill up the numbers
@sky, i don’t think it’s best performance of the year, because people still rate shahid’s
performance in haider over aamir in pk. while critics has much-praised aamir’s performance
and highly praise shahid’s performance!
all aamir and salman fans its humble request from an Srk fan
plz don’t compare your actor film collection with Srk sir. aamir and salman are no1 ok . plz no 1 actor films on overseas don’t compare loser actor films collection. aamir and salman are no1 in worldwide OK @bully @navin @tiger etc.
Best movie ever Aamir i love u thanks for such an extraordinary movie and thanks to rajkumar hirani for his good thoughts about muslim and pakistan. we pakistani love khans.
my rating is 4/5
Just watched PK in the morning today. I just got my time to post a review about it.
The best film of this year so far. seriously, I have no qualms accepting it!!
As you watch PK, you definitely feel, it’s a Raju Hirani film. I had full faith in Hirani that he won’t disappoint, and yes, he doesn’t entirely, but a bit in the middle he does, although, completely satisfies it in the end!
As of now, everybody knows the synopsis about Pk., I would not explain much more about it. I want people to go and experience it in the Big screen.
The first half was completely, typical Raju hirani style comedy, and the second half begins with the social elements which you quite find often in his films. Yet, I found something missing as opposed to his previous 3 films. Nevertheless, I totally enjoyed myself while completely immersing myself in it.
Though, by the time you move on to the second half of the film, it’s completely opposite of the first half, it does at times seemed like it wasn’t Raju Hirani directing it (right after interval)!
But, the way he got that ‘letter’ aspect in the end – Raju had nailed it by that time! That was a masterstroke, I believe.
However, I would disagree with two points that the film has been criticized of lately, The film does have some shades of ‘Oh my God!’ but it completely does not focus on that aspect (about gods/Hindus). and secondly, the CLIMAX which (others thought as disappointing) I thought, it brought back the movie altogether to a new high! – Brilliant!
Negatives: Not much going in the second half (before climax). Weak supporting characters (unlike his other 3 films) – It was only about PK, Pk!, No impact of that Bomb scene (spoiler alert), Boman Irani was wasted! Weakest film among Hirani’s other three (most people would agree).
Definitely, the first ‘Hindi’ film that I have thoroughly enjoyed watching in the theater.
Hats Off to Aamir Khan, he’s the only among all the Actors, who has that authentic script sense (of course, except Dhoom 3). Powerful performance again from this guy. He proves that he’s the Best in the Country, probably after Amitabh and Kamal Haasan in terms of sheer ‘On-Screen Performance’.
No doubt, PK should grow huge in the long run and would definitely become the biggest grosser of the year 2014. (240+ is what I predict). Respect for #Raju Hirani – again proves why he is the Best Director in India today! and #Aamir Khan – Best Performance of 2014 and one of his best, ever – Bow Down to you, SIR! (beats Shahid by a margin).
Keep your expectations low as opposed to previous Raju Hirani films, as this one is definitely not better than his Munnabhai series and 3Idiots. I assure, You would still, love it!
I would give it 4.25 on 5. The best film of 2014.
Just watched the movie a few hours ago and I must admit that the movie is one of the most heart touching movies released in recent times.The film begins on a slow note and it takes its time to introduce the characters but once PK lands in Delhi the fun actually begins.There are so many hilarious moments in the 1st half that you would laugh your heart out.There are certain scenes especially the scene where PK chases a lookalike of God Shiv which might not go down well with certain sections of the audience but they must also realize that films are meant to provide entertainment and also the makers haven’t tried make fun of any religion or God.In fact in the 1st half itself Rajkumar Hirani makes you fall in love with the protagonist as he had done in his previous movies.The 2nd half of the film has been criticized by various critics but it was really good.The only problem was that the film resembled Oh My God in the 2nd half with Pk trying to expose the fraud Godmen and some of the dialogues seemed to be cliched.But the climax scene makes up for the dull moments(which are in fact very few in the movie) and will force you to shed your tears in trademark Hirani style.The music of the film is really good but underrated.All the songs grow on your hears.The song ‘Bhagwan kahan hai tu’ is is the best of the lot and even the other songs are good.Performance wise Aamir is terrific.After watching the movie you can’t imagine anybody else playing the role of pk.He one’s again proves why is he called the perfectionist of Bollywood.Anushka too has done a fantastic job.To get noticed in an Aamir movie is tough but she has improved a lot in the last few years and it it is visible in the movie.All the supporting cast have played their part really well and Sushant deserves a special mention, who despite having a small role will impress you.Overall pk is surely one of the best movies of the year if not the best.Rajkumar hirani once again proves that he is the best director of the country who could make you laugh and cry in a single movie.
Rating:4/5