Nowadays I see there has become a trend in Bollywood, that every other film is either trying to raise awareness over something, has a disabled protagonist or trying to portray the life of poor people. I like to call such "content driven filmmakers" as "gareeb" directors. If you have seen that "Main gareeb hoon!" video, you have a good idea of what I mean. Imagine that kid saying he is poor, and that is the whole script. They are trying to "relate to the audience and change their mindset" with these kinds of films. Earlier there were just Black and Paa, so I had no problem with it. But now Pink has even been declared the best Amitabh Bachchan film. Now I do like this film, but it's nowhere even close to being his best.
Pink is a story about three girls who were out with three boys, out of whom one was related to a politician. They were about to have sex, but then they refused. But the boys were no longer listening, and so they molested them. They filed a case against them, in which on a simple glance it seemed like they had filed a fake case on them, but then from their perspective it's a question of their life, as one of them gets raped by the boys in an SUV. Meanwhile a lawyer has been seeing them all the time who didn't really like them (and neither they liked him), but when he saw their condition he decided to defend them in the courtroom. The message that the film wanted to give was that the character of a person should not be the thing to decide what a person's dignity is. It doesn't matter whether the woman is your friend, girlfriend or even your wife, if she does not consent then you shouldn't force yourself on her.
The acting of all the characters was great, especially Amitabh Bachchan. This is his coolest look of all time in my opinion. The story was also made very nicely. There were no songs, so that's also a big plus. Also there was no unnecessary filler other than when the relations of the characters had to be fleshed out. However, there were two things about this film that I didn't like. Firstly the molestation scene that was shown in the credits. It was done with like, a 5 FPS camera. I don't know if it was supposed to add some "impact", because it really failed to do that. Also imagine sitting and watching a film with your family and they really like it, but then the credits roll and now the family is watching a rape scene together. Quality time, maybe? And secondly there was the cinematography. The lighting, the camera angles, the shadows were all wrong. This is something I don't like about Shoojit Sarcar. While trying to make scenes realistic he makes them ugly.
Pink is one of those films that give you an important message, unless you're a literate person in which case you already know the message. I'd put it in the same category as Fan - if you had made this film ten years ago, probably it would have been relevant. But now those who would watch this film already believe in the message and those who don't believe in the message won't want to watch such an educated film. But then again, it's free on Hotstar so what goes in seeing it? I mean it's Amitabh Bachchan for skin's sake! Do watch it if you want to see the coolest version of him.
