The Sky Is Pink: The only Asian movie to premiere at TIFF 2019

The Sky is Pink is an upcoming biographical drama that is set to release in Indian theatres on October 11, 2019. The film will star Priyanka Chopra and Farhan Akhtar in the lead roles. Based on the real-life of Pulmonary Fibrosis survivor Aisha Chaudhary, the movie has been directed by Shonali Bose. The Sky is Pink has already made its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival 2019 (TIFF), on September 13. It also happens to be the only Asian movie that featured during the TIFF this year.

The premiere of The Sky is Pink

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The movie was successfully premiered during the Toronto International Film Festival 2019. During the event, both the lead actors were interviews by a news agency. Priyanka was shooting for the film during the initial days of her marriage and found the role of Aisha’s mother to be extremely taxing due to the themes of the movie. However, she managed to work through because of her husband Nick Jonas's support. He said that the cast tried their best to be respectful to these real-life events and that hopefully, the movie would be able to do justice to the real story of the Chaudhary family.

The standing ovation

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After its screening at the Roy Thomson Hall, the film received a standing ovation from a crowd of about 2,000 viewers. The audience stood and clapped for the movie for around 15 minutes. Later the movie also screened at the Elgin Theatre and once again received thundering applause from the viewers. During the event, the director Shonali Bose was interviewed by a news agency. She said that the first screening of a film is always a tense moment. 

Aisha Chaudhary passed away only a day after the publication of her book My Little Epiphanies. She died on January 24, 2015, at the age of 18. The movie will span across 25 years of the Chaudhary family’s life. It will be portrayed as a narration from Aisha Chaudhary and will depict events through her point of view.

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