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Released
2014 · FILM

PK

A stranded alien in Rajasthan teams up with a defiant Indian journalist to locate a missing deity and reclaim his stolen control amulet, racing against a ruthless thief and a fanatical godman whose interference threatens both interfaith love and cosmic order.

Peeke hai kya?

Directed by
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
153 min
Language
HI
ComedyDramaMusical

Synopsis

A stranger in the city asks questions no one has asked before. Known only by his initials, the man

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 35

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Rajkumar HiraniShot by C K MuraleedharanScored by Atul GogavaleDesigned by Snigdha Basu

Box Office

2014 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 9.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$118.9M

Budget$13.0M
Worldwide gross$118.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $10.6M 9% of worldwide · International: $108.3M (91%)

Opening weekend: $3.6M 34% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $6.2M58% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 272 theaters

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Also known as

  • PK – Andere Sterne, Andere Sittende
  • पीकेhi

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