PINK.
A film which can arguably be called as one of the very best films to have ever come out of our Indian film industry (My favorite if I may add), had elements which just shows how brilliant the makers were about their subject.
**Spoiler alert**
Fact 1:
Do you remember the dramatic climax of “Pink” where the judge ruled in favor of Meenal Arora (played by Taapsee Pannu) against Rajveer Singh (played by Angad Bedi)?
Well, when the original draft was written and probably shot, it wasn’t the case.
According to the initial climax, Rajveer Singh was going to WIN the case and judge would have ruled against Meenal Arora.
But the makers did not want to hurt the popular (national) sentiment by doing so and antagonize themselves and hence, they eventually planned to flip the climax in favor of Meenal Arora and the girls. (Which in my opinion was a very good decision).
Fact 2:
Do you remember the scene where Meenal Arora starts coughing as soon as the prosecuting lawyer (played by a phenomenal Piyush Mishra) started to interrogate her?
In reality, Taapsee Pannu was actually suffering from a viral infection while shooting the scene and she wanted to do the dubbing later but Shoojit Sircar (the producer) decided to shoot the scenes as it is because it rendered even more authenticity to those scenes.
Fact 3:
The title of the film “PINK”.
With all the hue and cry that surfaced as to the reason why the film was titled “PINK”, the popular consensus being the fact that since the film is about the suppression of Women and as there is a typical notion that Pink-the color is generally associated with girls and hence the title was chosen as “Pink”.
But this was so very wrong.
When you look at the poster above, you’ll notice that there are two hands that are holding on to the letters “I” and “K”. This was the main punch.
Director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury wanted to convey the fact that this particular notion about the color pink being associated with girls shouldn’t be. He wanted to empower women so that they can speak up.
Amitabh Bachchan went on to say that Pink means that women have the liberty and freedom to walk at night and it will be a wake-up call to bust such stereotypes.
“PINK” was much more than a film to me. The film possibly happens to be one of the most important stories that needed to be told in our times and with all these deft facts taken into consideration, it just adds to the prowess exhibited by the film.
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Source: Pink (2016 film) - Wikipedia, Why was movie ‘Pink’ called ‘Pink’? Amitabh Bachchan explains the relevance