INTRODUCTION: 

The movie pink is based on feminist jurisprudence. Feminist jurisprudence emerged about 35 years ago. Some of the earlier works of feminist jurist were olsen on the family and the market. It emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. they started questioning about the curriculum which neglected issues like rape, domestic violence.it inquires into politics of law, but its particular  focus is on the law’s role in perpetuating patriarchal hegemony. There are four types of feminist jurist they are: liberal, radical, cultural and postmodernism.  For liberals, equality among equal opportunity. Radical, such as Littleton and mackinnon focus on difference between women and men to challenge the inequality. Cultural feminist think same as radical but more positively. Post modernist sees equality as a social construct and it is a product of patriarchy, one need of feminist reconstruction.

PLOT:

On September 2016 this Indian court drama film hit the theatres. The movie basically addresses the issue of patriarchal, condescending attitude towards independent women and stigmatizing them in 21^st century India. One of the most prominent roles is Mr.deepak sehgal who is played by amitab bachan a famous indian actor. It is a very inspiring and energetic character. He is a lawyer and in the courtroom he shows his showmanship. He understands that Indian men have a hard time understanding Indian women. He breaks open the human hedge hammer and dives into the basic concepts of human dignity, respect and honour for the women in india. So coming back to the movie, here’s how the plot of the movie goes:
The three female protagonists of pink are a regular young women. Minal ( taapsee pannu) is an event manager, whose work can extend into the late hours. Falak (kirti kulhari) works in a corporate set-up where image is all. Andrea (tariang) is from the north east (Meghalaya, she says but no cares they just mention that girl from the north east , this has a very important part to play in the movie). The girls share a flat in a posh area in Delhi.

The scene starts with the girls going in a cab at the early hours of the morning, disturbed about something that has just happened. The other part is where a man (rajveer) is injured and being rushed to the hospital. For few days they have a regular life but they seem to be disturbed about something. One of rajvir’s friend call the tenant of the house and tell him to ask the girls to leave the house, but the tenant calls and check up on them but does not mention to them about the call. Later the tenant meets with a minor accident and the friend threaten him. They tell him to throw the girls out of the house, still he calls and inform them about the incident, does not tell them to leave the house. 

Andrea who is one among the three girls meets up with a male friend and tells about the situation, she comes to know that she is being followed so some how she escapes with her friend. Simultaneously falak meets up with one of rajvir’s friend to solve the problem, he tells her to apologize to rajvir and she also accepts.

The friend of rajvir tells that he wants to end this problem, he convinces her by saying that they are just girls and this problem would spoil their life and that they wouldn’t able to withstand the effects of it. Though he tries to help but this situation, in india shows us that still women are being easily manipulated. By this dialogue we get that men try to control women and the reputation of a women can be easily destroyed and the society would believe all the idiocracy. Catherine mackinnon is probably the most influential of feminist legal scholars. In the extract from feminist unmodified she argues that feminist should concentrate on identifying dominance. This treats gender equality issues as questions about the distribution of power, about male supremacy and female subordination. It is dominance, not difference that is central to mackinnon. The dominance approach sees social inequalities from the standpoint of the subordination of women to men. 

Meanwhile minal goes to complain to the police but the inspector tells her that once she complains then she would also be charged because she hit him with a bottle and she was also drunk. So she explains the situation to her  boss who is a lady, the boss tries to help her. They met the ASP of south delhi and tells minal not worry. Next day falak calls rajvir to apologize but he wanted minal to apologize but she doesn’t, he uses abusive language so falak loses her temper and shouts back at rajvir and hung the phone. So rajvir and company release a fake offensive picture of falak portraying her as a prostitute. Due to this picture she gets fired from her job.

When she goes to the police, he does not give importance to her problem. Lacey says  women are depoliticized and their lives are marginalized-only in the last 40 years domestic violence assumed any political importance. This clearly shows that our society would believe anything and everything. In the scene when falak’s picture gets released the male colleagues would look at her in a different way which shows that how dirty are the minds of some men. This scene also clearly shows us that just a offensive picture of a women would affect a women’s life. Women are not toys to plays with and men are not superior gender. How do you silence a courageous young woman who has the temerity to ask questions? You label her cheap, slut, whore! Pretension, ego, sense of male superiority and skewed ideas of perfect woman hood make it complicated, intriguing, disgusting and disturbing. Personal liberty’ does not mean merely the liberty of the body but mean more than that. Liberty postulates the creation of a climate wherein there is no suppression of the human spirits, no denial of the opportunity for the full growth of human personality and there is no servility of human mind or enslavement of the human body” (Khanna H.R.J). The Supreme Court observed, “ personal liberty means the prevention of restraints and providing such opportunities; the denial of which would result in frustration and ultimately disorder”. Liberty is one of the most essential requirements on modern person (John Emerich Edward Dalberg Action). Thus Life and personal liberty under the Constitution of India are the most prized assets of an individual.

The next day minal goes for jogging that time she gets kidnapped by rajvir’s friends. Deepak seghal sees this incident. Mr. seghal tries to report this to the police but they do not take any immediate actions so he keeps trying. Rajvir’s friend take her to a isolated place and molest her. They warn and drop her off in the night. Minal is very much affected by this situation and she is psychologically affected.

This scene shows women are not safe and men play with the body of women, which is a holy place for them. One’s own body is a sacred part and we don’t have any right to destroy it. If a women cannot roam around her own place freely then where only will she be safe ? aren’t they taking her freedom of movement. A woman in a micro mini cant be raped because she is asking for it. A wife cant be raped by her husband because they are married and she has to grant him ‘conjugal rights’. A prostitute cant be raped because she earns money by soliciting sex. When people show their strength by causing grievance to women then they are not real men. They do it for their own pleasure but the one who is affected becomes mentally unstable and she wouldn’t be able to forget this. These kind of action would bring down the spirit in them. finely proposes critical engagements with the nature of legal language to bring women’s experiences, perspective and voices into law to empower women and help legitimate these experience. This has already had an impact: sexual harassment is beginning to be recognized. Other areas such as tort, contract and property can be opened up to take account of the experience of women, and in particular injuries they suffer.

After this incident minal and her friends file a molestation case against rajvir. So he uses his influence and makes the police to arrest minal. They arrest saying that she caused grievous injury u/s 307. They try to meet her but the police does not allow them. They try to get bail but no lawyer takes immediate action. So Mr.seghal himself gets bail for her. He says even though it is a non-bailable offence in India woman and minor can get emergency bail on non-bailable offence. 

In a patriarchal society, experiences and perspectives of males are the reference points in relation to which the law is fixed.  This scene shows the indian government is trying to make laws to help the woman and minor. The above situation is very bad because though she was the first to give to complaint but the police arrested her. So in India influence still plays a very important role. Influential people can escape the wrong which they have done. The true fact is that the majority of people in jail are from lower class. A war between the gender starts and the police, society, parents, judiciary and everyone else become a party. finely argues that legal language and reasoning is gendered: it is informed by men’s experiences and derives from the powerful social position of men, relative to women, she emphasies as much as olsen does, the dualistic and polarized nature of this thinking and stresses that the claim that law is patriarchal does not mean that women is being ignored by the law. But the law’s cognition of women is refracted through the male eye rather than women’s experience. 

Part -2 is about the analysis of the trial and the court room scenes. Stay tuned for Part -2!

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