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Behind-The-Scenes: Big B On Why ‘Pink’ Is A Powerful Odd Title

Behind-the-scenes videos of ‘Pink’ prove that making a serious and powerful film can be a fun filled experience too.

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The Amitabh Bachchan starrer social thriller Pink tells a hard hitting story of women in our present day society. But these behind the scenes videos from the film’s sets reveal that its making had light hearted and fun moments too. The mega star plays the part of a lawyer in the film and revealed in a Facebook chat why the film’s title and concept appealed to him.

I wasn’t amused by the title Pink at all because I know that pink represents a format which is associated with women. It’s a colour that has been for some reason symbolised as women empowerment. This film is not about women empowerment, it’s not about rape either. It’s just a slice of life if I may say, through circumstances that occur in Delhi with three girls who live independently, working girls, and through an incident, what transpires thereafter and what happens to them and their lives, how they face circumstances, how they face life, how they face society, how they face their morals, and all of it inside a court of law. And that makes it very exciting.
Amitabh Bachchan, Actor (Facebook/ The Film Pink)
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Behind-the-scenes videos of ‘Pink’ prove that making a serious and powerful film can be a fun filled experience too.
Film Poster: Pink

Pink starring Amitabh Bachchan, Taapsee Pannu, Kirti Kulhari, Andrea Tariang, Angad Bedi and Piyush Mishra is all set to hit theatres on 16 September. Talking about its unique title, the megastar also wondered about why we as a society stereotype and associate girls with pink and boys with blue. An interesting observation and a very valid question.

Every time a girl is born, everyone starts getting pink things you know, build a room that is pink, give her pink frocks, give her pink ribbons. Every time a boy is born you give them something blue. Who has decided this? I want to know, really. Why is blue associated with men or boys and why is pink with women?
Amitabh Bachchan (Facebook/ The Film Pink)

But more than that, Mr Bachchan hopes to tell his audience through the film that girls are an integral part of our society. He also said that Pink is really about women melting away the chains that we’ve kept them under.

I feel we need to educate our masses from a very early age. We need to educate them that the girl child is a very important element in our society, if our family. A girl is an asset to the family and that needs to be inculcated from the time they’re born. They’re not just someone that can be discarded with. They go through a very rough time. A girl goes through a huge amount of character change, society change. They grow up for about 21, 22 years in one house and call themselves by a certain name, and one day they get married and they’re told ‘no this is not your surname, your surname is this’. It’s a huge psychological change for anyone. And suddenly, a home that was theirs for about 20-25 years, suddenly they’re told ‘this is not your home now’. It’s a very tough thing to do. So please look upon them not with sympathy, not even with any kind of compassion, they don’t need that. They just need to realise their strength. We bind them with a lot of chains. They need to melt those chains and make them their weapons almost. That’s what this film is all about. 
Amitabh Bachchan (Facebook/ The Film Pink)
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Shoojit Sircar, the film’s Creative Producer Piku director, hopes that audiences will understand and relate to the title after watching the film, and that the colour which has so far symbolised femininity, will then be perceived as something powerful and strong.

Pink is a very catchy title. I thought it’s a young title, because this film is for all youngsters. And I think we see pink always as very soft colour, the colour of Barbies you know...but in this film pink is not that, it’s quite different, quite strong. So I think when you see the film you’ll find the real meaning of the title. Maybe for people, after they see the film, the perception of the word pink should change, I think so. It’s a very out of the box name and in my films I’ve tried that the titles I use are so catchy that you remember them at the back of your head. So that’s why Pink.
Shoojit Sarkar, Creative Producer of Pink (Facebook/ The Film Pink)

Mr Bachchan is all for a catchy, out-of-the-box title and the story he has to tell about it will take you right back to his Don days.

Behind-the-scenes videos of ‘Pink’ prove that making a serious and powerful film can be a fun filled experience too.
Film poster: Don
It’s a social thriller and one that I hope all of you will go and see. Many people feel that Pink is an odd title to have, but you know, film industries all over the world have been filled with odd titles and sometimes they work. I hope this one does as well. I keep quoting an example and saying, you know in the 1970s I worked in a film called Don. Nobody had ever ever thought or realised that Don could be the title of a film. Those were the days of Chhoti Bhabhi and Badi Dulhan and things like that. Suddenly to have a word like Don as the title of a film was rather unusual. 
Amitabh Bachchan (Facebook/ The Film Pink)

When asked about making a comeback on the hugely popular quiz show Kaun Banega Crorepati, Amitabh Bachchan recalled meeting an impressive young woman on the hot seat, whose story defines his upcoming film.

A young lady came on the hot seat in one of the episodes of Kaun Banega Crorepati. I asked her about her life and she said “I grew up in a village and after the 7th or 8th standard, my parents stopped my education”. They said that the whole village is saying “Isko zyada padhane ki zaroorat nahin hain, kyun paisa zaaya kar rahein hain aap iss par. Iski shaadi ho jayegi, yeh chali jayegi, aapka paisa waste ho jayega”. She felt very hurt by this remark. She wanted to educate herself. She fought with her parents, she left the house, they threw her out. She went to her grandmother’s place. Her grandmother treated her equally badly. But she still pursued her studies on her own and had landed up on the hot seat through her intelligence. During the game she won Rs 25 lakhs. When I signed the check and gave it her, and asked her what was she going to do with it, she said I’m going to take this check, show it my father and say “even a daughter is an asset to the family”. And I think that every woman in the country should take this as an example. And Pink is just about that. 
Amitabh Bachchan (Facebook/ The Film Pink)

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