So why is the film called Pink?
On the face of it, the film’s title can be associated to something girly, as pink is often associated with femininity. Is it because the color Pink is stereotypically linked with women? Or does the word PINK signify something else here? Are we missing a context?
When the producer of the movie Shoojit Sircar was asked about it, he said people will be able to decipher the meaning of PINK once they see the movie.
However too bad for the audiences, they haven’t been able to decode why the movie is called PINK. The real reason of the title is much more complex.
According to writer Veeresh Malik, ‘Pink’ is also defined:
‘Slang – the various urban dictionaries online define “pink” as a reference to forced and often cruel or threat-based occupation of a vagina by an unwelcome penis.’
He wrote in his blog in a leading newspaper:
“Slang – the various urban dictionaries online define “pink” as a reference to forced and often cruel or threat based occupation of a vagina by an unwelcome penis. That’s about as hard-hitting as it gets, there are other racial undertones also, which I first heard about, way-way back in the ’70s.”
Trying to define PINK in a way that has hardly been done he wrote, “PINK. Pink says that we are all prostitutes – and I think that is the truth too. PINK in common street slang in so many countries means vagina of the sort that is bought, with violence, viz – “I’m gonna go get me some pink”. Look it up before you wear pink socks too. I wore pink socks for the movie. And a pink shirt.”
He also points out that the word has a different connotation as well:
‘Pink in common street slang in so many countries means vagina of the sort that is bought, with violence.’
It wouldn’t be wrong to say we need more films like these.
More power to cinema!
