PK and Krish3 - their relevance to science and religion

A movie when it grosses the highest box office collections in any industry deserves to be discussed threadbare. The movie plays on the emotions of people and introduces humans to an alien civilization much advanced than our own. It questions our beliefs. It has a message of indo-pak brotherhood. It hits out against hypocrisy and strikes a chord making people think about the definition of religion.

Indian movies more often than not have depicted aliens as friends of our civilization as against the paranoid Americans. In this movie excepting minor differences in appearance an alien falls in love with a human disregarding genetic differences/compatibility. The hero descends to the earth naked. In the humorous last scene several males descend to earth looking for females to marry making you wonder whether competition for females was less on earth that we have aliens with supernatural powers to compete with. Why is there a depiction of a horny alien civilization esp at places where women are in short supply? Why don't naked alien females descend and solve some of our problems.(quip)

The hero has child like behavior and questions everything. He comes in contact with a sex worker and guess what(the weakest link in the movie and the most unscientific) in an unbelievable way downloads all the memory from her into himself. That there can be flying saucers riding which aliens come to earth is more palatable. This USB like download of past experiences is an example of fantastic Indian imagination. Something similar was spoken by the prime minister in the science congress.

People apply various meanings to existing things and science is a misunderstood term here. So you have science of religion too.

Here is a sequence of dialogues from the movie Krishh 3:

Wah papa yeh sab kya hai... Mere saalon ki mehnath Ek koshish kyon ki dhoop zindagi deti hai Light gives life... aur mujhe lagta hai ki Maine finally aayinon ke zariye light ki energy ko reflect karke use multipy karneka perfect combination bana liya hai. Kudrath mein bhi aisa magical combination maujoodh hai par ham log use dekh nahin paathe isliye mera yeh khaas pen jo actually ek electronic device hai is pen ke aas paas kahin bhi aisa magical combination ho toh yeh acivate ho jayega beep karne lagega aur phir saari kiranon ko samet ke unhe multiply karega aur ek subject pe daale ga aur phir ham dekh sakenge ki kaise dhoop zindagi deti hai.

Hard to digest indeed.

So with bollywood movies performing last rites of science and poking fun of religion one is left to wonder where people are being led to. Atheism? While western world is taking support of science and the developing world religion our movies are poking fun of both.