Pink

Film: Pink
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Taapsee Pannu, Kirti Kulhari, Andrea Tarian, Piyush Mishra, Dhritiman Chatterjee
Director: Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury

I was eager to watch Pink ever since the official trailer was out.  I was drawn mostly because of the sensitive subject. And I loved Shoojit Sircar's all films be it his directions or productions. There will always be a content in his films. 

Plot: Three women, Minal Arora (Taapsee Pannu), Falak Ali (Kirti Kulhari), and Andrea Tariang) are roommates staying in South Delhi. They meet three men at a rock concert of which one is Minal's schoolmate. They go out for dinner at a resort in Surajkund. A guy starts molesting Minal and she smashes a bottle on his head. The girls ran off and injured man is admitted to the hospital by others. The girls refrain from complaining to the authority thinking they will just move on. However, the boys start harassing them and threatening them. They even kidnap Minal for a brief period and molests her in the car, which was witnessed by Deepak Sehgal (Amitabh Bachchan). When the girls are contemplating about the future course of action, an FIR is registered against Minal of attempt to murder and soliciting money for prostitution. And others are co-acused.

Deepak Sehal, a neighbor and retired criminal lawyer comes to the rescue of the girls. His formidable opponent is Prashant Mehra (Piyush Mishra) whose single point agenda is to prove the girls as prostitutes. Hence starts the gritty courtroom drama. All personal and intimate questions are asked to build and assassinate the character of each girl. We will all know how it ends because our beloved Bachchan cannot lose and we don't want him to. The onward journey is thrilling, bold, and insatiable.

Performance by each and everyone is outstanding. It is nice to see Taapsee in a commendable role for a change. After seeing her in many Southern movies playing almost similar roles, I wrote her off as just another pretty face. I'm wrong. The girl can act, brilliantly in fact. No one could have done justice to the role of opposition lawyer as Piyush Mishra. He is menacing, formidable, and evokes instant dislike effortlessly.

There is absolutely no words to describe Bacchan's performance. If "PINK" is going to be a social movement, no one I say 'NO ONE" could have conveyed the message beautifully. He is a powerhouse of acting.

The whole movies boils down to one single point "Consent".

When a girl says no, she could be your girlfriend, friend, date, sex worker, or even your wife, it means "NO" in bold. I don't know how many people are aware of the word consent in this country. If they are ignorant of this fact, let this movie enlighten them. And for feudal mindset nothing going to change them because they are prisoners of misguided tradition and I can only pray for their painful death.

This movie is a tight slap on the patriarchal society who condemn, judge, and degrade women on the basis of length of their skirt, time to return home, living alone in a big city, her habits, her lifestyle. Pink is an exceptional movie with a strong social message; however; it never is preachy with its solid screenplay.

Do yourself a favour and go watch PINK. Don't wait for the weekend. Break the weekday routine and make time for it. It is not every day you get to watch something like Pink.

PS: What actually transpired between the men and women is shown as end credit roles. So if you are a person to rush out immediately after the movie, be patient until the end.