Pink is a 2016 Indian courtroom drama social thriller film directed by Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury, written by Ritesh Shah, and produced by Rashmi Sharma Telefilms (Pawan Kumar and Rashmi Sharma), Sheel Kumar and Shoojit Sircar. It stars Amitabh Bachchan, Taapsee Pannu, Kirti Kulhari, Andrea Tariang, Angad Bedi, Piyush Mishra, and Dhritiman Chatterjee. It was released on 16 September 2016. The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) granted the film a U/A certificate with four verbal cuts. The film received widespread critical acclaim, and garnered the National Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues.
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Directed by | Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury |
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Written by | Shoojit Sircar Ritesh Shah Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury |
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Cinematography | Abhik Mukhopadhyay |
Edited by | Bodhaditya Banerjee |
Production company | Rashmi Sharma Telefilms Limited |
Distributed by | NH STUDIOZ |
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Running time | 136 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Budget | ?23 crore |
Box office | ?107.32 crore |
The film was specially screened for the Rajasthan Police so as to train them to be sensitive and sensible about women's rights and dignity. The film was also specially screened at Rashtrapati Bhavan and invited for a screening at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. On 4 November 2016 the movie completed a 50-day run in theatres.
Screenplay
Three young and affluent boys, Raunak (Raashul Tanden), Vishwajyoti (Tushar Pandey) and Rajveer Singh (Angad Bedi) rush to the nearest hospital because Rajveer is profusely bleeding from an injury to his head. They nervously refrain from filing a police complaint.
On the other side of the same town, three young women — Minal (Taapsee Pannu), Falak (Kirti Kulhari) and Andrea — hurriedly travel in a taxi to their apartment. They look disoriented, and it is implied that they have something to do with the incident. Minal and her friends are shaken but try to carry on with their normal life.
The story revolves around these three young women. They are independent and self-sufficient women living together in Faridabad.
Minal goes out for her usual morning run, where she is constantly observed by an old man who lives in her neighbourhood, a man called Deepak (Amitabh Bachchan). He senses there is something wrong and introduces himself to these women as a reputable lawyer who is in retirement, and they enlist his help in the matter.
Eventually, as Deepak had predicted to the women, a series of threats arise from Rajveer’s friend Ankit (Vijay Varma), who pushes for revenge. The threats result in Andrea being stalked and Falak losing her job. They are discouraged by a police officer from filing a complaint stating it would make their daily lives more miserable unless they relocate to another town or city. In reality, the local police are aware that the young men are "well connected" and are backed-up by Rajveer’s uncle Ranjit, a powerful influential politician from South Delhi.
Nevertheless, Minal files a complaint.
Immediately, the next day, Minal is kidnapped by Rajveer’s friends during her morning run. Deepak witnesses the incident but is unable to help in the heat of the moment even though he notes down the details of the car.
Minal is threatened to stop filing complaints, is blackmailed and molested in the moving car and later dropped back home after all the commotion with a serious warning. A few days later, Minal is arrested by police from her apartment, based on a complaint from Rajveer labelling the women as prostitutes and charging Minal with attempted murder.
At this point, Deepak is frustrated with the events and visits Falak and Andrea in their apartment. Soon, he helps them with the bail procedures and also in representing them in the court to plead their case.
In the courtroom, Rajveer’s lawyer, Prashant Mehra (Piyush Mishra), presents the following version of events:
Rajveer and his friends meet with Minal and her friends at a rock concert. The men invite the women for dinner at a hotel resort, where they have drinks. The women provoke the men, have intimate relations and thereafter demand money, all signs indicating that they are prostitutes. Rajveer refuses to pay and an enraged Minal hits him on the head with a bottle and flees. Prashant’s argument focuses on the poor moral character of the women. He pushes the idea that the friendly manner of the women, the fact that they attended a rock concert and the fact that they had drinks with the men indicate that they were prostitutes. Prashant attacks the fact that Minal has family in Delhi but chooses to live alone, Falak is in a relationship with an older man, and Andrea has moved to the city from Northeast India.
Contrary to this, Minal and her friends' statement says: that the men tried to sexually assault them. Minal alleges that Rajveer tried to rape her, and she attacked him with the bottle in self-defence.
Deepak’s argument focuses on the issue of consent and a woman’s right to say no.
A series of interesting and chilling courtroom arguments ensues in the following days.
Towards the end of the trial, Rajveer becomes enraged and provoked by the reputable and respected lawyer Deepak, revealing the truth by stating that the women “got what they deserved”.
Deepak criticizes the regressed views of the society where women are stereotyped as prostitutes if they come home late, move out of their home, want to be independent, drink and so on, but none of these apply to men.
In his closing remarks, Deepak mentions that his client said “NO”. No means no, and does not require further explanation. The women are acquitted while Rajveer, Ankit, and Dumpy are charged, with the duration of their sentences pending. Vishwajyoti is let off with a warning.
- Amitabh Bachchan as Deepak Sehgal
- Taapsee Pannu as Minal Arora
- Kirti Kulhari as Falak Ali
- Andrea Tariang as Andrea Tariang
- Angad Bedi as Rajveer Singh
- Dhritiman Chatterjee as Judge Satyajit Dutt
- Piyush Mishra as Prashant Mehra
- Vijay Varma as Ankit Malhotra
- Raashul Tanden as Dumpy a.k.a. Raunak Anand
- Tushar Pandey as Vishwa a.k.a. Vishwajyoti Ghosh
- Dibang as JCP Amod
- Mamta Malik as SHO Sarla Premchand
- Mamta Shankar as Sara (Sehgal's wife)
- Arjun Chakrabarty as Ritwik
In early March 2016 Amitabh Bachchan revealed that he was shooting a film in Delhi. It was rumoured that the film was titled "Eve". On 13 March Bachchan denied the rumours and announced through Twitter that the film is titled Pink.
Director-producer Shoojit Sircar informed that Amitabh Bachchan accepted the role and Taapsee Pannu was their first choice. Andrea Tariang was also selected to play the role of one of the girls in the film. Tushar Pandey, Raashul Tandon and Arjun Chakraborty are making their debut with this film.
Filming
The principal photography of the film began in New Delhi on International Women's Day, 2016. The looks of Amitabh Bachchan in the movie was created by Shoojit Sircar however the idea of wearing the mask was suggested by Amitabh Bachchan since Delhi is very polluted.
During the shoot, Amitabh Bachchan wandered the streets of New Delhi while wearing a costume in which the public could not recognise him. Amitabh Bachchan finished filming his scenes in April 2016.
Taapsee often broke down on the shooting sets as she felt her character was very strong and challenging. She suffered from viral infection during the court scenes and wanted to dub later, however Shoojit felt that her illness would add more authenticity to the scenes. Despite the hardships Taapsee enjoyed filming the scenes.
The original climax of Rajvir and his friends winning the case was modified so as not to hurt the sentiments of the audience.
A special screening of the film was held for Amitabh Bachchan's co stars and the leading ladies of Bollywood. However Amitabh Bachchan could not attend the screening due to health issues. Taapsee also arranged a special screening of the film for the Telugu film industry at Hyderabad.
Bishan Singh Bedi, father of Angad Bedi, arranged a special screening of the film in Delhi which was attended by cricketers like Kapil Dev, Virender Sehwag and Yuvraj Singh.
Marketing
Shoojit Sircar and Amitabh Bachchan questioned their fans on Twitter as to what they think the film title "Pink" is all about. Times of India had opened a contest in which 5 lucky winners got a chance to meet Amitabh Bachchan and other 10 winners got free movie tickets of the movie -Pink. The winners were announced on 15-September-2016.
The world television premier was held on 23 – October 2016 on Star Gold and to commemorate the same, Amitabh Bachchan's house Jalsa, Carter Road Promenade and SNDT Women's University were illuminated in pink colour.
The title of the film has no relationship as being the favourite colour of girls but rather conveys that, women should have the freedom to speak and walk freely at night.
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No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Singer(s) | Length |
1. | "Jeenay De Mujhe" | Faiza Mujahid | Faiza Mujahid | Faiza Mujahid | 03:58 |
2. | "Kaari Kaari" | Tanveer Ghazi | Shantanu Moitra | Qurat-ul-Ain Balouch | 06:27 |
3. | "Tujhse Hi Hai Roshni" | Anupam Roy | Anupam Roy | Anupam Roy | 04:28 |
4. | "Pink" | Anupam Roy | Anupam Roy | Jonita Gandhi & EPR Iyer | 03:47 |
Total length: | 18:40 |
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