"Pink" Hindi film review - The tension in the courtroom is palpable; socially very relevant movie...
This revolves around a courtroom drama about gender equality. It starts with three women - friends who're roommates - running away from an incident scene in the middle of the night, and one of them getting charged with an attempt to murder a man with a bottle.
Pink was a little slow-paced in the first-half, and picks up rapid pace - and action - post intermission. The movie had its flaws but was still very well-made and relevant in India today. There should be more of such cinema with social messages, without getting melodramatic.
What makes this an atypical movie to me is that it is not feminist. The director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury does a fine job of keeping it pretty subtle.
I did not know until after the film that it was only produced (and not directed) by Shoojit Sircar. I like the kind of civil movies he associates himself with - first Vicky Donor, then Madras Cafe, Piku and now Pink.
Septuagenarian Amitabh Bachchan must be on cloud nine having got two stellar roles in Piku and now Pink, with yet another neat performance, showing yet again why he is amonst the very best actors (not just) in India. As a movie lover, it's heartening to see how filmmakers like Sircar give the senior actors meaty roles and characters, in an industry where an actor's shelf life is confined to his or her age.
Tapsee Pannu, after Baby, is terrific yet again and is revelling and perfect in her emotions.
Tapsee's friends play their characters to the tee, too, and Kirti Kulhari and cricketer Bishen Singh Bedi's son, Angad Bedi, in particular, caught my eye.
It was also good seeing the veteran actor Piyush Mishra don his lawyer role to perfection, standing against the superstar Bachchan in court.
I did miss some subtle humour in the film, though, as it was too serious. Mind you, that's just an observation and not a complaint. :)
Besides the background music and the courtroom scenes, the best things about Pink are -
I do have one complaint, though, about my movie-watching experience at Cauvery theater. A friend had told me not to miss Bachchan's poem at the end of the film. Sadly, this movie-hall cuts screening almost immediately when the credits start rolling, and that's one thing I like about the multiplexes, where they play all the way to the end.
My verdict: 3.5 stars, out of 5.
Pink was a little slow-paced in the first-half, and picks up rapid pace - and action - post intermission. The movie had its flaws but was still very well-made and relevant in India today. There should be more of such cinema with social messages, without getting melodramatic.
What makes this an atypical movie to me is that it is not feminist. The director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury does a fine job of keeping it pretty subtle.
I did not know until after the film that it was only produced (and not directed) by Shoojit Sircar. I like the kind of civil movies he associates himself with - first Vicky Donor, then Madras Cafe, Piku and now Pink.
Septuagenarian Amitabh Bachchan must be on cloud nine having got two stellar roles in Piku and now Pink, with yet another neat performance, showing yet again why he is amonst the very best actors (not just) in India. As a movie lover, it's heartening to see how filmmakers like Sircar give the senior actors meaty roles and characters, in an industry where an actor's shelf life is confined to his or her age.
Tapsee Pannu, after Baby, is terrific yet again and is revelling and perfect in her emotions.
Tapsee's friends play their characters to the tee, too, and Kirti Kulhari and cricketer Bishen Singh Bedi's son, Angad Bedi, in particular, caught my eye.
It was also good seeing the veteran actor Piyush Mishra don his lawyer role to perfection, standing against the superstar Bachchan in court.
I did miss some subtle humour in the film, though, as it was too serious. Mind you, that's just an observation and not a complaint. :)
Besides the background music and the courtroom scenes, the best things about Pink are -
- Qurat-ul-ain Balouch's magical rendering of the song, "Kaari Kaari".
- Bachchan's aspersions on the female handbook. Here's a link on the same, for your reference http://www.bollywoodlife.com/news-gossip/10-hard-hitting-dialogues-from-amitabh-bachchans-pink-that-should-be-in-every-how-to-treat-a-woman-handbook/
- Shantanu Moitra's background music is epic and lifts the bar of the movie a couple of notches higher. So does Ritesh Shah's dialogues, which are crisp and hard-hitting.
I do have one complaint, though, about my movie-watching experience at Cauvery theater. A friend had told me not to miss Bachchan's poem at the end of the film. Sadly, this movie-hall cuts screening almost immediately when the credits start rolling, and that's one thing I like about the multiplexes, where they play all the way to the end.
My verdict: 3.5 stars, out of 5.
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