In today’s new lifestyle, we often see young girls moving freely in the company of their friends on the streets of Mumbai or Delhi or in the hotels, during late night. We have also seen untoward incidences taking place during this time, such as rapes and molestation. In all such cases, we find these young girls as target. But, have you seen a girl defending herself in retaliation by hitting an object on the face of an attacker? If not, latest released film ’Pink’ produced by Rashmi Sharma and Shoojit Sircar and directed by Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury shows how one such courageous young girl dared to hit one such attacker who tried to molest herself.
The story of ‘Pink’ revolves around three young working girls Minal Arora (Taapsee Pannu), Falak Ali (Kirti Kulhari) and Andrea (Andrea Tariang) who are staying together as tenants in a posh South Delhi area. One night, after attending a rock concert, they accept a dinner invitation from Rajveer (Angad Bedi), who is a relative of a powerful politician, and two others, to a resort in Surajkund, Faridabad district, Haryana. Actually, Rajeev is known to Minal through a common friend. When, Rajveer and his friends get drunk , they try to molest Minal and her two roommates ,despite they refusing to oblige, with a straight ‘NO to them. In her self defence Minal picks up a bottle and smashes it on Rajveer’s eye, leaving him bleeding.
To avenge the attack on him, Rajveer and his friends use their influence to vacate the girls from their houses and also threaten them over the phone. Finally, Minal goes to the Police station to file a FIR against Rajveer and his friends. After knowing Minal’s action, Rajveer lodges a false FIR against the girls, labelling them as prostitutes, using his political contacts. Minal is then charged for ‘Attempt to murder’ and taken into police custody. Deepak Sehgall (Amitabh Bachchan) a retired lawyer suffering from bipolar disorder and who experiences frequent mood swings and with an ailing wife, comes to the rescue of two other helpless girls, promising bail for their friend. Incidentally, he is also a neighbour of these 3 girls (Minal,Falakm Andrea) and has witnessed their troubles.
How Deepak Sehgal represent the girls in the court and gives them justice, has been very skilfully presented in the screenplay of this film. It is an interesting and thought provoking court battle, which holds the audience to their seats, for little more than 2 hours. In the entire film, you feel, as if you are watching the happening live. So much has been the impact of the story written by Ritesh Shah.
The film has passed a timely social message to all the youngsters and at the same time has offered many safety tips to the young girls, who take all their new friends for granted. There are many such sensible dialogues uttered by Amitabh Bachchan through his character, where he has cautioned the girls about the suspicious behaviour of their so called boy friends. The film highlights the attitude of a man while looking at a woman. Mr. Bachchan has once again proved that he could be a good ambassador, when it comes to delivering a timely social message. In the role of Deepak Sehgal he steals the show, with his wonderful performance.
Good performances also come from Taapsee Pannu, who plays the role of Minal and her friends played by Kirti Kuhari and Andrea Tariang . Angad Bedi plays Rajveer Singh convincingly. But, the director has shown his drying wound with marks open and sometimes with dressing in continuity scenes, which is the only small drawback in the film. The scenes involving the TV news reporters has been captured well , just to show their presence and cleverly avoiding their blah blah. The two songs have been cleverly used in the background. Editing work is otherwise perfect, to offer this gripping drama. ‘Pink’ has therefore turned out to be a thought provoking film with a timely social message. It is an intelligently presented film, not deviating from its subject. Don’t miss it.
Rating (****1/2)