Firstly unlike my previous post where I got to the topic like a road going around the mountain... Here I am sharing thoughts over the newly released Hindi movie PINK.. So spoiler alerts..
So the movie is basically about a night where three girls get along with three guys and things go awry and includes political influence over police (which is now easily acceptable to Indian public). But the rest of it is all about how Indian society treats women.
The movie raises all bits and pieces of everything in the society... How girls are judged if they drink, come late, have boys as friends, wear wrong dresses, get frank and everything that will come to your mind... Even the treatment of northeastern girls... And I am very pleased if I was expecting this from a movie hyped so much by the media and public... But its a weak story. Even the end argument seems like just a mere formality.
I still am unsure why was the movie made. If it was for awareness among the masses of what the girls face in the society then the focus should not have been on Amitabh Bacchan rescuing them. The intensity wasn't even building up with him sure to come around and save the day. His sarcastic lessons or rules of safety manual where neither laughable nor thought provoking. There are movies where you connect with actor who is being oppressed and you want to lend him/her a hand yourself to stop their suffering which wasn't there... Some might say that it was to make women aware and self empowered then the only thing a women learns from the movie is that "you can get a bail for a non-bailable offence on a Saturday'. The characters were building up but before they could they were all sobbing. Even Meenal who was shown as most confident of the lot looses it only for Amitabh to drop her hoodie cap down. There was a brief phase where society and its views were targeted but that was only a matter of a second. And lastly it may be a correction lesson for boys who are gone rogue... But I don't suppose any guy who thinks like that will go for such a movie and those who do already believe the issues are basic etiquettes a man should have.
I would love to see a movie on such a sensitive issue made true to the core. Where they need not point to every issue but raise and justify the ones they pick. I would even have thought if it was a sad end where the girls are charged guilty because that is the sad reality these days. But in PINK they have just jotted down all they could and tried to create an essay kinda like this blog builds up. The end never got me something new to think.
A woman deserves all the respect and the movie is made with a good mindset and should be a good beginners guide for boys. But the current society yearns for change of the current mindset as well where the movie for me doesn't pull any string.
So the movie is basically about a night where three girls get along with three guys and things go awry and includes political influence over police (which is now easily acceptable to Indian public). But the rest of it is all about how Indian society treats women.
The movie raises all bits and pieces of everything in the society... How girls are judged if they drink, come late, have boys as friends, wear wrong dresses, get frank and everything that will come to your mind... Even the treatment of northeastern girls... And I am very pleased if I was expecting this from a movie hyped so much by the media and public... But its a weak story. Even the end argument seems like just a mere formality.
I still am unsure why was the movie made. If it was for awareness among the masses of what the girls face in the society then the focus should not have been on Amitabh Bacchan rescuing them. The intensity wasn't even building up with him sure to come around and save the day. His sarcastic lessons or rules of safety manual where neither laughable nor thought provoking. There are movies where you connect with actor who is being oppressed and you want to lend him/her a hand yourself to stop their suffering which wasn't there... Some might say that it was to make women aware and self empowered then the only thing a women learns from the movie is that "you can get a bail for a non-bailable offence on a Saturday'. The characters were building up but before they could they were all sobbing. Even Meenal who was shown as most confident of the lot looses it only for Amitabh to drop her hoodie cap down. There was a brief phase where society and its views were targeted but that was only a matter of a second. And lastly it may be a correction lesson for boys who are gone rogue... But I don't suppose any guy who thinks like that will go for such a movie and those who do already believe the issues are basic etiquettes a man should have.
I would love to see a movie on such a sensitive issue made true to the core. Where they need not point to every issue but raise and justify the ones they pick. I would even have thought if it was a sad end where the girls are charged guilty because that is the sad reality these days. But in PINK they have just jotted down all they could and tried to create an essay kinda like this blog builds up. The end never got me something new to think.
A woman deserves all the respect and the movie is made with a good mindset and should be a good beginners guide for boys. But the current society yearns for change of the current mindset as well where the movie for me doesn't pull any string.
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