The sky is pink

*ing: Priyanka Chopra, Farhan Akhtar, Zaira Wasim, Rohit Suresh Saraf

Rated: 7/10

Directed by Shonali Bose and co-produced by Siddharth Roy Kapur, Ronnie Screwvala and Priyanka Chopra, The Sky Is Pink is based on a true story of Aisha Chaudhary, a girl from Delhi, who was born with Severe Combined Immuno Deficiency (SCID).

The film, a love story of a couple spanning 25 years, is told through the lens of their spunky teenage daughter – Aisha, who was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis and went on to becoming a well-known motivational speaker. She authored a book — My Little Epiphanies, published one day before her death. She died on January 24, 2015 at 19.

Given this plot, the movie promises to be a tearjerker and it doesn’t disappoint. You end up crying buckets. If you are the kind of person who cries, don’t forget to carry an entire box of tissue paper.

There are no cliff hangers here since the opening shot already tells you how things end. Told in a flashback, the film is an emtional wringer, especially for parents.

The beauty of The Sky Is Pink lies in not just that despite knowing how it ends, it is able to hold the audiences’ attention till the credits start rolling but also the connect that the audience makes with the Chaudhary family and walks with them through their ups and downs.

Though the film is about Aisha, strangely she is not central to the film. It is the entire Chaudhary family and how they deal with the hand that they have been dealt with. Priyanka Chopra as Aisha’s mother (Moose, as she is referred to), plays the role to perfection. Farhan Akhtar, as the peace-loving Moose’s husband is just as good.

Overall, it is a movie that is not to be missed.