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Thinking activity A Tale Of A Tub

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                           Critical and Creative task 

                                                           Controversy

                                  A Tale of a Tub

     

                     

                                    This Blogspot is in response to the Critical thinking Activity based on Controversy subject. I am going to write a blogspot on PK Movie. This blog is about creative - critical thinking tasks in reference to "A tale of a tub" by Jonathan Swift. This blog is inspired by Kavisha Ma'am. 



                              

                 

              PK is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language satirical comedy drama film edited and directed by Rajkumar Hirani and written by Hirani and Abhijat Joshi, and jointly produced by Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra. PK is not the first movie that has taken a controversial but critical look at religious practices in India.

 

      * But then why is the film generating strong reactions?

                 The answer lies in the movie's simple narrative. It doesn't reach any conclusion on the existence of religion, but simply questions superstitions.

 

               In one of the scenes, a priest tells a man to take an arduous journey to a temple in the Himalayas to ensure that one of his sick family members gets well. PK jumps into the conversation and asks the priest if it's true that God considers all humans as his sons and daughters.

              "Aamir is a superstar and that is why this movie has reached millions. It has made people think. Religion has been debated in many regional language films and earlier Bollywood films, but Aamir's presence has made the difference this time” . 

 

                      A hashtag called #boycottPK started trending almost immediately after the movie was released.  The rest of the movie is all about PK's debate with one such powerful "godman" who is in possession of his remote control.

 

      In the end, he proves the guru wrong, falls in love with a female journalist who helps him, and returns to his planet.

 

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