Pk..
An idea..unique..well portrayed.
We are so much a part of the community, we have become an integral part of it or vice versa.. So, we don’t find the practices weird, but for an outsider? Nothing less than a maze to reach God.. The more you try to find, the more confused you are! Different religions, different cultures, different trends, different Gods or One? But all preach the SAME!
Even if Jaggu doesn’t believe in the so-called, self-styled ‘Tapasvi’, unknowingly, he resides within her and that is why when Sarfaraz doesn’t turn up, she has no second thought and it’s confirmed for her that Tapasvi is right.. yes, there is a wrong number..may be in all of us..even if we don’t know, we follow it. And there is a very apt question; as posed towards the end- What is the right number? We want someone to rely on, a power greater than all, the ultimate one!
Pk makes it simple.. There are two gods- one that made us all and one made or presented by the religious managers; believe, follow which made you’ll. And maybe he is within..so stop finding him outside. And if he is within, we don’t need to prove him anything by torturing ourselves, getting in the loop of never- ending offerings- all kinds. A bhakti geet in Marathi reinforces this thought- “Kuthe shodhisi Rameshwar an kuthe shodhisi kashi, Hrudayatil bhagwant rahila hrudayatun upashi.”, meaning you go out in search of God, and in the entire process, the God within is starved.
And one thing is impeccably sure that once you remove the wrong number, everything will be clear (as it gets towards the end of the movie), as the fog of ignorance subsides you’ll be able to find God and may be yourself.
