Movie review - " Pink" directed by Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury

Pink

Director – Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury

Producers – Rashmi Sharma and Soojit Sircar

Writer – Ritesh Shah

      

  Starring – Amitabh Bachchan, Taapsee Pannu, Kirti Kulhari and Andrea tariang

        

        Before the film has released, there were so many posts on social media regarding the feministic elements in the movie but if you want to watch movie with that expectation you will be disappointed.

  

      Amitabh Bachchan is presented as the savior of three girls. Taapsee Pannu, Kirti Kulhari and Andrea Tariang played a role ofvictims of power and patriarchy. The movie start with an incident where Minal(Taapsee Pannu) has hit a boy Rajveer(relative of a political  leader) with a wine bottle and escapes from Surajkund resort, a place where everything has happened.

     The courtroom drama is worth watching, where Amitabh has risen an important questions related the different point views towards girls and boys. It is also a truth of society that whenever a girl is with any boy and talking or laughing, she is considered as a characterless woman. If a boy is smoking in any mall or restaurant it is his style, and nobody takes it seriously but if a girl is smoking in any public place it becomes a huge issue of our so called “Sanskriti” or culture.

    The first thing that movie is suggests that never judge anyone from their cloths or reputation in society, there are people with black heart hidden in white skin. There is one dialogue by Amitabh Bachchan,

“Save boys, save sons”

And it is truth that first we have to change the perspective of boys towards girls then only we could hope better for our society. The freedom of girls is a big issue not because girls are behaving in such manner or wearing such clothes, but the fact is boy is looking girls as an object of entertainment, a boy allows her sister to wear such kind of clothes but if there is any other girl, he will tease her. The male mentality that women of our house are well mannered but other women are characterless is very well presented in movie. One of important act by Amitabh Bachchan is wearing mask, which suggests the pollution of Delhi.

     The movie also has shown the power of position versus the power of an old lawyer who wants to save those girls. Over all the movie is good and thought provoking without much drama. The interesting thing is that the incident which has happened with girls in resort is not revealed till the end of the movie, there are only statements of girls and boys, audience remains in confusion till the climax. The title may suggest that “Pink” is a colour of girl and whenever we listen a word ‘pink’, the girlish things pops up in our mind, even when you type "Pink" in google images you will images of girls with pink cloths or bikini. So the word is sarcastically used in one or the other way.