Pink: Ground breaking movie which acts as huge boost to India's Feminist movement

Pink is a court-room thriller that completely shakes the average moviegoers' conscience. The hard hitting movie hits out at the existing feudal-patriarchal mindset as three working women fight the odds and the powerful nexus of criminal politicians and policemen to salvage their reputation.

The lead character Minal (Taapsee Pannu) survives a molestation attempt by a powerful guy Rajveer (Angad Bedi) and injures him grievously in the process. What follows is a topsy-turvy nightmare for the girls Minal, Falak (Kriti Kulhari) and Andrea (Andrea Tariang) who are branded as aggressors and prostitutes as the brawl is taken to the courtroom.

In comes Deepak Sehgall (Amitabh Bachchan), the defence lawyer with a bipolar disorder and a deep baritone to represent the girls. Despite his failing health, Bachchan easily slips into the role as the movie highlights some important issues related to a woman's choices and her right to say no. Path breaking performances from the characters display the skewed road to justice and huge challenges that the girls face while proving their innocence and punishing the real culprits. 

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Bengali director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury’s first film in Hindi opens with a crime that echoes all the way till the end credits. Three women scurry back to their shared apartment in south Delhi, while another vehicle bearing many raging men heads to hospital. Minal (Taapsee Pannu) has smashed a bottle on the side of Rajvir Singh’s forehead after he tried to force himself on her, and Rajvir (Angad Singh Bedi) might lose an eye.

Rajvir’s eye survives, but he thirsts for revenge. Being the nephew of an influential politician, he uses the law against Minal and her flatmates Falak (Kriti Kulhari) and Andrea (Andrea Tariang). Minal is accused of attempt to murder and, along with her friends, of prostitution, and her own molestation complaint against Rajvir is dismissed as harassment. Forced to take the stand instead of Rajvir, Minal finds her reputation and future at stake, and it is good for her and this movie that Amitabh Bachchan’s world-weary lawyer is on her side.

The Hindu

In Pink, the focus is on the ordeal of three single girls, Meenal Arora (Taapsee Pannu), Falak Ali (Kriti Kulhari) and Andrea (Andrea Tariang), whose night out at a rock concert sets off a terrifying chain of events. Their frightful experience gets cleverly sandwiched between the blank opening credits and the final explicatory visuals of the closing credits; it’s all about things coming a full circle for the threesome.

The film addresses the men and uses the figure of Deepak Sehgal (Amitabh Bachchan), a respected patriarch who doubles up as the girls’ lawyer, to reach out as the voice of reason, with the judge (Dhritimaan Chatterjee) as an ally. The girls are alright; it’s the boys who need to get their act together.

Hindustan Times

Meenal Arora (Taapsee Pannu), Falak Ali (Kirti Kulhari) and Andrea Tariang (Andrea Tariang) are working women living in a posh south Delhi locality. Their daily struggle with neighbours’ questioning eyes has made them brave and ready for tougher challenges. They meet Raajveer Singh (Angad Bedi) and his friends at a rock concert which ends when Raajveer gets hit by a bottle and starts bleeding.

If Kanu Behl’s Titli brought out the harsh truths of east Delhi’s lower middle class vicinity, Pink sketches a similar picture of a tony south Delhi. Unfortunately, the attitude of people inhabiting these districts is common across the country and could even be universal.

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Every sleazy hand that ever groped you, every insulting conjecture ever made, every lascivious remark ever thrown at you, every lewd gesture, every leering eye, they may all come to mind as you watch director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury’s Pink. This is a film about male privilege, prejudice, sexual violence, and the many systems that support them.

Pink also delivers a slap on the face of status quo-ists who are alarmed at the tiny gains made by India’s women’s rights movement in recent years. The whispers are no longer whispers, as panic-stricken men anxious about a potential loss of millennia-old privilege paint pictures of hordes of women filing false cases of violence and discrimination against helpless men in a world rapidly switching to female dominance. Pink has something to say about all this and more.

The Indian Express

 All those associated with the making of ‘Pink’, please take a deep bow : finally, a powerful, brave Hindi mainstream film which focuses on real young women who live real lives and deal with thorny day-to-day issues, which young women the world over will identify and relate with.

Pink reminded me of Jodi Foster’s The Accused in which her character is gang-raped in a bar: because she wears a short skirt, and has been drinking, she is made out to be a woman on the make. Something similar happens here, but it is all three women Minal (Taapsee Pannu), Falak (Kirti Kulhari) and Andrea (Tariang) who have to bear the brunt of the rage that such male entitlement comes with: ‘aisi ladkiyon ke saath toh aisa hi hota hai’.

DNA

Pink is an engaging courtroom drama revolving around the subject of a woman's consent. Despite the feminist twang to the title and perception, Pink isn't about women's rights or liberalism. On the contrary, it talks about a basic yet often forgotten subject— a woman's right to say no when it comes to sex.

Andrea (Andrea Tariang), Meenal (Taapsee Pannu) and Falak (Kirti Kulhari) are roommates in Delhi. A tiff during a night out at a rock concert with some boys changes their lives forever. Meenal, in an attempt to protect herself, ends up breaking a bottle on Rajvir's (Angad Bedi) head. Not knowing his affiliation with politics, her friends and she land in a legal soup that involves a very public character assassination in court. Amitabh Bachchan plays an ex-lawyer Deepak Sehgal who happens to be their neighbour and decides to come out of exile despite his mental health issues. With a great narrative and exceptional acting, Pink not only highlights some important issues but also entertains.