Thursday, December 15, 2016

Pink - Movie Review

DON'T WATCH PINK!

How can they even come up with a movie like this?! If you want to make a movie, make HAPPY NEW YEAR; make PREM RATAN DHAN PAYO; make HOUSE(FOOL) series; these are the ones our audience love watching again and again and make them earn 300-400-500 crores! Why make a film like PINK? Nonsense!

And what's the star cast? No 50+ actor (superstar) playing 30 year old hero; no 20+ actress (glass ceiling is present even in our film industry) playing their love interest (and the Chachaji-bhatiji chemistry looks mind boggling!); no item numbers; no plastic-everywhere heroines (even in their expression); no re-re-re-remix songs of Bharat Ratna Honey Singh; no designer clothes; no foreign locales; nothing! Only some real looking characters, doing real acting giving out powerful social messages?! Huh! Such a waste of time!

And what kind of messages? That it's time women get their due? That women of our society are free spirits and that we should respect their freedom of choice; their individuality; their decisions?! Who are we kidding here? We are the nation where in 2016 our daily soap operas show mangalsutra clad bahus staging war against their sasumas! Or if we run out of stories of women then we bring in "icchadhari nagins" n "witches"! We are the nation where in movies women are either raped by men and protected by men; insulted by men and "accepted by men"; tortured by men and freed by men. We are the nation where girls can't say what they want; do what they want; and be what they want. We are the nation where majority of our Gods are women whom we worship but women in human form are killed in mothers' womb. And most of us, men and women alike, have accepted all these and more with pleasure. So we advise our daughters to dress "properly", behave "properly", talk "properly", walk "properly". We either don't educate our girls, or if at all we educate them, it is because we want them to be "accepted" by a well-to-do groom! And in such a nation, films like PINK is such a waste! Who would appreciate? Who would make it 200-300-400 crore grosser?

But still if you don't take my advice and decide to go watch the movie, trust me, you will feel proud somewhere deep down, that few people thought to make a movie like this. You will realise how, many a time, knowingly or unknowingly, intentionally or otherwise, you mis-judge women who dare to be themselves. And you will definitely take a note to learn to respect a woman's NO.

And don't leave the hall without hearing the poem by Mr. Amitabh Bachchan till the end.

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