New Delhi: Much have been said about the controversial ‘PK' poster featuring nude Aamir Khan but now it's time to draw your attention towards this new poster whose title along with the presentation is entirely inspired by the former.
From PK, it has turned to ‘OK', in place of transistor the poster has a DSLR camera and in place of Aamir Khan, we have got the newbie Poonam Rai who stands naked on a railway line giving that weird look.
Its needless to say the Aamir Khan's poster has hugely inspired director Kanti Shah, who despite knowing the after effects that Raj Kumar Hirani's ‘PK' poster faced, dared to do the same.
Even if OK's plot deals with the issue like prostitution, was there really the need of promoting it through such an explicit visual in the poster. The answer somewhere lies in Aamir Khan's PK poster itself.
While we all know that PK as a movie has nothing to do with Aamir Khan's nudity in the movie nor it possesses any sleazy or explosive content in it, but contrary to that, the poster contained the nude element which garnered enough attention and finally an outrage.
Also the fury was witnessed because Aamir Khan's name was involved and we as an audience or his fans couldn't digest this act considering he has given flicks like Sarfarosh, Taare Zameen Par and show like Satyamev Jayate whose third season is set to hit the small screens on television in October.
Aamir Khan, who is among the most socially involved actors, is upfront against the social deeds across the country but when it comes to his flick and poster associated with it, he safeguards by terming it an ‘art'. As a result poster goes viral and we spot them in hoardings while traveling and slowly outside schools and colleges.
It's not that movie posters didn't have nude actors on it. Hansal Mehta's national award winning movie ‘Shahid's poster had Rajkumar Rao sitting nude but it had a painful significance attached to it as his character is being tortured in a cell.
On the other hand Madhur Bhandarkar whose 2009 directorial ‘Jail' has scenes showing Neil Nitin Mukesh standing nude behind a table, didn't feel the need to have a poster showcasing him nude.
Many a times this quotient is used which goes like this- Either Shah Rukh Khan sells or sex. Most of the films have followed this rule. Nasha makers painted Poonam Pandey on their posters from every possible angle they can. Julie, Jism 2 and Hate Story series among many others had their actresses shedding their clothes in posters.
Some worked while others like ‘Kamasutra 3D' couldn't even see the day's light. Meanwhile, now when actor like Aamir Khan has stripped to nothing in PK poster and is given a clean chit by the judiciary, how can we expect directors like Kanti Shah not ask their actresses to go nude in the same manner sans any controversy?
