Synopsis
Sky is everyone's dream.
The 25-year-old love story of a couple is told through the lens of their spunky teenage daughter who is diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis.
2019 Directed by Shonali Bose
The 25-year-old love story of a couple is told through the lens of their spunky teenage daughter who is diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis.
Sidney Kimmel John Penotti Ronnie Screwvala Priyanka Chopra Jonas Siddharth Roy Kapur Michael Hogan Deepak Gawade Nilesh Maniyar Robert Friedland
我的粉紅人生
What makes this family drama really connect is the way it’s emotionally grief core has been treated in a lighthearted manner with full of life and love. The non linear narrative does feel jumpy at times but the voiceover narration makes it up and keeps it cheerfully engaging. The characters have been fantastically written and the cast in Farhan Akthar, Priyanka Chopra and Zaira Wasim deliver outstanding performances oozing life onto each of their roles. It’s a thoughtful, funny and heart wrenching drama that has its central theme spot on ‘When death is inevitable and the ultimate truth, what can be more important than love’. The final 30 minutes is simply beautiful, making it one truly incredible and inspirational real life story.
Pampers its narrative with your average Bollywood fluff to multiple points where it feels so reduced to mere multiplex outing. And I was sad at times, because its storytelling time frames were achingly textured, and it always seemed marred by a teenager cancer-comedy direction (the voice narration had me like ughh). It tries too hard to be a tragi-com. Humour should be organic in a tragi-com, not an interruption to melancholy.
But then 'The Sky is Pink' slowly won me over. Its characters champion it through, and it lets its 'bollywood' blood tie into some moving moments of the best kind of melodrama.
Chopra is a surprise stunner. Her material sounds thin, but she swings at those hard hitting moments.…
Warning :
The movie will make you cry and if not, you are cold-hearted person!
I'm just saying :)
Just wanted to make a call to my family and tell them how much I love them immediately after the lights were on. I think everyone did. Always appreciate the authenticity of Indian film that brings pure joy and warmth to audience.
to use the already deceased Aisha Chaudhary (played with genuine affection by Zaira Wasim) as the narrator of this story can hold incredible therapeutic value not only for her parents but also for the many couples who suffer from the insurmountable grief of losing their children. this very form of making someone narrate their story from beyond the grave reverses the irreversible, reaffirming the belief in the spirit's existence beyond the body. but, in cinematic form, the use of this very framing device can also come across as extraneous, overly-clever, and a little too cutesy. all of which, sadly, applies to Shonali Bose's The Sky is Pink.
the problem here, particularly, is in how consistently this seemingly innocuous narration undercuts…
It's impossible to not cry.
I lost it completely at the point where I realized she is supposed to be my sister's age now, and she was my age when she died.
How am I supposed to not cry?
It was one of those movies after which my sister and I just wiped our faces and stayed quiet for what felt like and definitely was a long time.
لاتبكي يا صغيري لا انظر نحو السماء
من قلبك الحرير لا لاتقطع الرجاء
ان الامل
جهد عمل
والجهد لا يضيع
الامل جهد عمل
الوان طيف طاهره
قوسا وحبا ناشره
من أين
من قطرات الماء
تعاونت قطرات في قلبها
نبض مليئ بالحياه
تماسكت
تعاونت
كن مثلها
جهد أمل الوان حياه
So how I heard about this was since I love the Jonas Brothers, especially Nick and seeing his beautiful relationship with his now wife Priyanka Chopra Jonas, so of course I'm a fan and follow them both on social media. So that's how I heard about this movie through posts by them about it. I didn't know what it was about just maybe it had something to do with a family? So when I saw it was playing at a theater kind of close to me decided I would go watch it.
Seeing the negative reviews for this, I can understand why people didn't really enjoy this, I on the other hand really liked this. This was just something I…
Why is the sky pink?
Does it allude to the universality of tender, unconditional love; or the abundance of feminine grace; or the existence of a wonderful afterlife. I could well imagine so, but the movie explicitly places it as inspired by Ishaan's play-school assignment. Likewise, the movie does not allow you to feel these abstract ideas you ought to feel, and steers you to look a certain way. Now, am unsure if that's a good or bad thing with a movie that deals with bereavement.
All of us are going to die.
In the next 100 years, all of us in this room will be gone. Just at different times. Some sooner than the others.
So then if death…