Does Pink fails in showing the struggles of women?

Pink was praised for being a feminist film, which showed how modern women are judged for their character. That how they struggle in their daily life for their way of living.

But I think it kind of fails in doing all that. The movie wants to say alot of things, but couldn't really say it. It just glosses over the struggles of women.

The plot is not really complicated. It's about three women Minal, Falak and Andrea who end up messing up with some guys, Raunak, Vishwajyoti and Rajveer. Minal gets sexually harassed by Rajveer, due to which she smashes his head with a bottle.

The guys want to take revenge for that so they start harassing the girls. The girls file a police complaint which results in Minal getting raped by them. Then it follows with a courtroom battle where the characters of the girls are questioned because they are accused of being prostitutes.

My point here is that, more than half of the problems the girls face is because of the men being rich, powerful and well-connected. The girls feel hesitant in filing the police complaint because the guys were influential. When they did file the complaint, the police felt hesitant in taking it because again, the guys are influential.

Minal gets arrested and the girls are charged with blackmail and assault by the police because of a backdated complaint, which was again possible because the guys were influential. Their characters are questioned in the courtroom only by the prosecutor because that's his job. He's trying to make a strong case against the girls.

If the guys weren't rich and influential, would these girls have faced so much problem in getting justice? I think not and there lies the problem. Winning the case in the courtroom and sending the guys to prison is just winning half the battle. What about the whole world outside who is also ready to judge you and give their verdict without hearing your plea?

The movie never really shows the problems the girls face because of their case going in public. That how they get judged by their family, relatives and neighbours. That is the real battle, and this is something which women face daily even without facing what Minal and her friends went through.

Pink is nice social thriller, but not a social drama.

What is a VOTE UP TOPIC?? 😕

Why are there no like buttons under the post and instead there is a VOTE UP button...seeing this for the first time.

Pink was better than Neerja

Maybe you have seen the movie with a different perspective and I agree with you, but the movie cannot show/focus on each and every problem that the girls face, they just took one or two of their struggles but they showed them properly (according to me)

The scene where Tapsee shouts that it feels really bad being touched by someone and the scene where she tells even if we had taken money he had no right to touch me as I said NO

And the last speech of AB👏

How he pointed out the hypocrisy of the guy by comparing her sister to the girls as she too did the same things (which any normal girl would do) I loved all the scenes

Some people also say that all the fight was done by AB's character and they had not done anything apart from sitting silently in court, I would respectfully disagree on that part too as I feel though they were not fighting like him in the court they had their own battles to fight within them, and they did it.

Like a movie could actually capture a woman's struggle throughout her life. A woman who has never once been harassed in her life is a rarity.

There are so many variables, you could be rich/poor/, privileged/non-privilaged, educated/uneducated, liberal/conservative etc etc and the harasser could be any of the above as well. No movie will ever be able to cover even one scenario in its reality. They'll always fall short.

Call me a pessimist but its only in such movies that the girls could get justice. Real life mein toh they wouldn't even get a chance to get a hearing.

I agree. The film tries to say much but doesn't really pull it off well. Could have been handled better. And it's a very niche film. The majority of women in this country who face/have faced sexual harassment will not be able to relate to it because they never mingled with men freely , never thought of having alcohol or going out at night ; yet they get sl#t shamed just the same and they might think " Wait a minute .but this movie is about women who have already rocked the boat... First can we please talk about women who have done nothing but confirm to all the rules of patriarchal society and still have to go through the gaslighting and victim blaming ? ". So it was obviously meant for a urbane audience.

I disagree with you on the last bit though. The harassers /rapists being rich and influencal matters in many contexts but doesn't matter in many others. There are girls who get harassed by men who are piss poor but then end up putting up with all kinds of terrible things just because the police are hostile to them. There what matters is whether the girl is from a rich or influential family. Money alone does not help; if you are in a rural /conservative area 'reputation' is a very fragile thing so the family avoids going to the police as much as they can.

One of the courtroom scenes particularly made me angry. The one where Angad whatshisface keeps sl#tshaming her as if he was in his parents' drawing room and the judge says to his lawyer in an anxious-sounding voice " Apne client to please sambhaliye ". Please? What kind of a wuss are you? Get that damn gavel and assert yourself. That you won't tolerate such behaviour in your court. Even if you are scared of the accused or his family please have the decency to pretend you aren't.

Ya it failed in execution , just superficial

I can't quote people on this thread because I created a vote-up topic by mistake.

So I'll tag the members whose points I'm addressing.

You guys are right. A movie can't show all the struggles faced by women throughout her lifetime. I'm not expecting a movie to do that either. What I'm saying is, women in this film face most of their problems not because they are women, but because they're not rich and influential like the guys.

The problems Minal and her friends specifically face because of being women are, getting sexually harassed, stalked, raped and falsely accused of being prostitutes. Now these are big problems as well, but movie doesn't focus on this either.

Minal was gang-raped but the movie glosses over it and makes it seem like it wasn't a big deal. Falak's pics were put on a pornsite but again it seemed like she's largely unaffected by it.

The movie focuses more on the message of not judging the characters of women on how they live their life. Now I agree that this is a big problem, but creeps like Rajveer and his friends are not going to care if the girl is modern or traditional by their sexist standards before trying to rape her.

It's also true that it's difficult to get justice in court as well, even if your harassers or rapists are not rich or influential, it takes a lot of years to get them punished because of how slow our legal system is...and this movie glosses over that as well by making the court punish the guys when there wasn't really any evidence against them, along with the fact that the case was actually filed against the girls for being prostitutes.