Aamir Khan revealed recently that he and director Rajkumar Hirani weren’t happy with the way their 2014 film PK turned out to be. The actor revealed that the film had a different resolution earlier which was similar to Christopher Nolan’s Inception. However, Aamir said that it was an original idea which Rajkumar conceived of and was not inspired by the Hollywood film.
During a chat on Just Too Filmy on YouTube, Aamir said, “Raju and me weren’t happy with the final resolution of PK. In fact, he had thought of something else altogether. But then Nolan’s Inception hit the screens. We wanted to explore the idea about how we could change anyone’s thinking by going into their mind. But then, Inception released, and Raju was convinced that people would say he stole the idea from the Nolan film.”
Aamir said that they discussed on the possibilities and reshot some portions. “We weren’t fully happy with the film, but this was the best version we could think of. But people connected with the film, and they liked it. But we were not happy till the end. We couldn’t figure out what else to do.”
The actor even told Rajkumar at one point to forget about Inception. “Let people say we have copied Inception, we will say we haven’t. Every film is unique. Sometimes concepts match but someone like Raju, will have his own take on it. I told him not to change. He said no we have to.”
Rajkumar had opened up about this on Komal Nahta's podcast recently and told how, as per the initial concept, PK had the power to change people's minds. "Because we felt, you become cynical about certain things if you have experienced life in a particular way. So if your experience can change, your cynicism will not be there, you become a different person. So we had gone on that path. So we realised if you do this, it will look like we have copied Inception.”
PK also starred Anushka Sharma, Sushant Singh Rajput, Saurabh Shukla and Sanjay Dutt in pivotal roles. The film turned out to be a success at the box-office.
Aamir will be seen next in Sitaare Zameen Par, a spiritual sequel to Taare Zameen Par (2007).