Priyanka Chopra arrives in Delhi along with Director Shonali Bose to promote ‘The Sky is Pink’

New Delhi (01/10/2019): Today, Priyanka Chopra along with Director Shonali Bose attended a pre-promotional press conference for upcoming Romantic Drama ‘The Sky is Pink’. The film is based on a real story of an Indian couple.

“The Sky Is Pink” starts with a long disclaimer (rushing by almost too fast to read) basically asserting that the film can be held accountable for representing no one’s view save that of the real-life family depicted, in particular the mother upon whose “detailed narrations“ it is based.

Recently at the screening of this film in Toronto Film Festival, the cast and Director received standing ovation for almost 15 minutes continuously.

Speaking at the conference, Priyanka shared how good it felt to her to be back in Bollywood after her continuous appearances in Hollywood movies and web series. Priyanka said that working with Shonali is just one unforgettable experience.

In bending to the wishes of the surviving subjects, Bose has created an idealizing, conventional tearjerker that feels more fictive than fictional “Margarita” did. For that reason, “Pink” (which opens in the U.S. and India on Oct. 11) may well have greater popular appeal than its predecessor. But it’s a distinct letdown, coming after one of the more delightful surprises of recent years.

Shonali Bose’s much-praised 2014 “Margarita with a Straw” was a film whose presentation of a cerebral palsy-afflicted heroine sidestepped all the usual hand-wringing inspirational clichés of disability portrayal, making her story all the more enlightening and affecting. It is particularly disappointing, then, that the director’s followup should approach another tale of genetic infirmity with all the sentimentality and cuteness that last project avoided.