Island City and Pink steals the second half of 2016
Pink opens on a very interesting note on simultaneous/parallel actions of the protagonists and the antagonists driving back from one horrific night out. And that pretty much sets the pace of the film. The script takes time to build and by the time it has, created the mood and tenor to move to the next level, we are all quite clued on to what is unfolding. The film picks up on an extremely important issue plaguing the society today, gender bias-ness and the problems of stereotypes that we often face or are witness too. And what is more paradoxical, those are often seen in the strata of the society where we perceive or probably take for granted as the educated souls. Single girls staying together, wearing liberal clothes or drinking socially or the North East adage are typical challenges faced in the country. Barring a few cities like Bombay or Calcutta, the rest of India pretty much lives in those cliches and that's what is sad, painful and disturbing. I would tend to believe