The Sky Is Pink is the incredible love story of a couple spanning 25 years, told through the lens of their teenage daughter. She is sassy, sardonic, spunky....and dead. A fact she nonchalantly mentions at the very outset. "Get over it. It's quite cool actually. You'll see when you get here (which you do know you will right?!)" Unexpectedly humorous, warm and heart-wrenching all at once as the magic of life and the beauty of death manifests in one family's unusual, courageous ... (Full plot summary below)
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The Sky Is Pink is the incredible love story of a couple spanning 25 years, told through the lens of their teenage daughter. She is sassy, sardonic, spunky....and dead. A fact she nonchalantly mentions at the very outset. "Get over it. It's quite cool actually. You'll see when you get here (which you do know you will right?!)" Unexpectedly humorous, warm and heart-wrenching all at once as the magic of life and the beauty of death manifests in one family's unusual, courageous journey in this film. It's 100% a true story.
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| The New York TimesTeo BugbeeThe fantasy of The Sky Is Pink is that Aisha’s death allows her to see her mother with adoring omniscience, and the film is never more pleasing than when it revels in the glamorous melodrama of a superstar performing motherhood. |
| Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshChopra and Akhtar have great chemistry, and though the nonlinear storytelling is somewhat unnecessary, Bose deftly manages the challenging tonal shifts within this lengthy film that never drags. |
| IndieWireKate ErblandWhile the film’s first half boasts universally strong performances (even babyAisha gets some screen time), it’s Chopra Jonas who emerges as the film’s driving force. |
| The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungFor those who like head-on, immersive emotional experiences at the movies, The Sky Is Pink may be a direct hit. |
| The GuardianCath ClarkeThe ending is unforgivably mawkish, though, and the running time of two-and-a-quarter hours is simply too long. |
| VarietyDennis HarveyThe emotions we witness and feel should have more force given the obviously stressful circumstances depicted. But they feel like all the edges have been sawed off to flatter both the subjects and principal actors. |
| User ReviewLaurapaThis film fulfills what it promises in the trailer and in what way, it is an emotional roller coaster, you laugh, you cry and again until the end, the non-linear narration gives a different touch accompanied by the narrator, Aisha herself who with her personality puts that differential point between any other film of this genre (family drama) the performances of Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Farhan Akhtar as parents going through the difficult situation of their daughter are brilliant and the chemistry on screen is a refreshing pleasure, very natural and fluid. On the other hand, the performance of the young Rohit Saraf and Zaira Wasim perfectly complement the family. Congratulations to the director Shonali Bose, this is a universal film that touches all the fibers and I think that is the point of make movies, this is definitely a story that has to be seen, that has to be felt. |
| User ReviewTejasNairIf you can manage to bear the unabashed oversmart and touchy first-person narration by the overzealous central character (or villain as the character likes to call herself) and the cringeworthy sequences that form as a result, you will be able to complete watching The Sky is Pink, a film that tries to be so doe-eyed and gooey it's hard to not shake your head in displeasure after every other sequence. Even if you do agree with the views that the film advocates, it will be challenging to appreciate the decisions these characters take. It is that sort of a movie where you forcefully end up judging the characters and that usually does not work well for a movie that depends on manipulating its viewer's emotions by milking the tear gland. Performances are stunning and I really loved Priyanka Chopra. Farhan Akhtar comes second but it is the chemistry between them and the equal parenting that they showcase (or pinpoint) that helped me finish the movie which is also terribly long and purely hagiographical. More than anything, if you were to appreciate the movie, then appreciate it for its take on death, its acceptance, and grief. About everything else, it's a sugarcoated mess produced only to immortalise the life of someone who had a rare disease. TN. |
| User ReviewJaganpaStory is ok. Acting is bad!!The worst actor irfan Akhtar. |
