This Review Of Pink Remake, Nerkonda Paarvai Misses The Whole Point, Receives Flak On Social Media

Chances are, if you have watched Pink, either you had been shaken to the core and found a voice as a woman, or had some awakening as a man. Whatever your gender may have been, Pink proved to be an eye-opener that emphasised on just one fact- a NO means a NO, irrespective of anything. This film worked in subverting the age old culture portrayed in Bollywood films which propagated the idea that a woman’s no secretly meant a yes! This film was not just critically acclaimed, but received very well by the audiences.

The film has been remade in Tamil as Nerkonda Paarvai, starring Ajith and released just this week. While the film has got good reviews, just like the original, it is one review of the film that has drawn attention, and flak.

A YouTube channel called Valai Pechu reviewed the film, but looks like they just missed the entire point in the film. Here are some of the highlights from the review:

“Do those girls have my sympathy? No, because they look like upper-class girls. They go to pubs, drink alcohol and they had their first sex at the age of 19. And later they have had sex with two other men also. When we know all these things about these women, we feel, ‘who cares what happens to them’?”

 “Girls going to pubs and having sex is a very common practice in the north. That’s why Pink became such a hit there. And the audience also did not take offence to it. But, according to our Tamil culture and way of life, this sort of things feels strange to us. And that’s why we don’t feel like not caring whatever happens to them.”

Well, enraging, isn’t it? Many celebs have also been rattled by these kind of opinions. Actor Siddharth appealed to journalists to save their institution from ‘yellow’ journalists like this:

Singer Chinmayi Sripada, who talked extensively about the #MeToo movement, wrote: