Film review from TIFF19: priyankachopra's 'The Sky Is Pink'
may be a direct hit. It makes a lot more demands on the heartstrings than the first film from writer-director Shonali Bose, her moving but more moderate 2014 Netpac-winner,, about a sexually alive girl with disabilities.
The long story is coyly narrated by Aisha, who is clear from the start that she’s speaking from beyond the grave, but “it’s no big deal.” There’s no self-pity in her voice as she affectionately tells her life story and interprets her family’s feelings and motives. Rather irritatingly, she insists on calling her mother Aditi “Moose” and her father Niren “Panda.” The two have made a mixed-caste love marriage which, though frowned upon by society, binds them closely together.
His voice breaking, Niren makes an appeal on London’s Sunrise Radio, servicing the Indian community. They need £120,000 for a bone marrow transplant to save Aisha’s life, and the response is overwhelming. The baby is saved – but her condition is so delicate she can’t leave London for ten years. She has also had chemotherapy treatments which, they are warned, could have consequences in the future.
Finally Niren, who has done remarkably well off screen in the restaurant business, gets transferred to London as a big manager. The family’s economic rise is swift, and when they return to Delhi with teenage Aisha , they move into a big new house with a swimming pool. The over-protective Aditi worries about every germ her daughter encounters and schemes to make her happy, while Aisha fights for her freedom to be a normal teenager looking for love.
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