Let this sky be pink

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The Sky is Pink is the story of Niren and Aditi, rather Panda and Moose, told through their daughter, Aisha Chaudhury’s point of view. The couple’s relationship is feisty yet cute. Two independent individuals, with different backgrounds, deal with love and anguish in different ways. The film is humorous and breathes life on a hot summer day.

But why the title? In a frantic phone call from London to her son in Delhi, Moose asserts, “Your sky should be the color you choose it to be. If you want it to be pink, so be it.” And, we this kind of independence in their tabiyat throughout. Based on true events (the life of the teenager Aisha Chaudhury who succumbed to Pulmonary Fibrosis and an Immune Deficiency syndrome), the movie is about struggle and more importantly, her family that lived through it. Aisha Chaudhury wasn’t the only one suffering from pain, her father, Panda; her brother, Giraffe; and her mother, Moose, were too.



Aisha has such cute names for her family members that you get sucked right into the story. The story is told in a non-linear narrative and Aisha Chaudhury narrates the entire film in a charming way. While, we know, Aisha won’t live long and at the tender age of eighteen will see the threshold of another world, we enjoy the film. That’s what struck me the most. There were tender moments and you cannot help but let the tears roll down but there were several moments of their bond that seems surreal (Panda had an unconditional strength and Farhan Akhtar’s facial expressions will melt your heart and you will empathise Priyanka as Moose, who has done nothing but care for Aisha, throughout). What struck me was this dialogue: There were several moments in my life that I lived the fullest and these moments did not just happen, they were created by Moose and Panda.



It’s the moments we create for ourselves and for our family members that we will live and relive. We all have one life to live but how well we live with ourselves and each other is what life is all about. It would have been easy for Aisha to be a glum teenager and pass away with bickering parents. But her illness never overpowered her spirit. It is the spirit of a human that keeps him or her alive and that’s what matters. 


Live the film as it is intended to be.

PS: Aisha left the world in 2015 and has left her collection of paintings and a book to connect with her. You can watch her  Ted Talk here.

Image sources: Film companion, My Good Times

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