Priyanka Chopra will be returning to Bollywood after a gap of two years with Shonali Bose’s The Sky Is Pink. But before the film gets its theatrical release on 11 October, it will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2019 on 13 September. Priyanka took to Instagram to announce that she is already headed to the festival and will be joined by the rest of the team soon.
Priyanka has been in New York the last few days and was seen attending the Vanity Fair’s Best Dressed Party in the city on 8 September.
“On my way to @tiff_net today. Can’t wait for the rest of the team to join me for the premiere on the 13th. So excited for the amazing early reviews & to share this with the world! #TheSkyIsPink,” she wrote.
Director Shonali, Farhan Akhtar and producer Siddharth Roy Kapur will also be attending the premiere.
The film is also set to have its European premiere at the BFI London Film Festival. Reports suggest that the film will also be screened at the Busan International Film Festival 2019 in October.
Shonali returns to TIFF for the third time after Amu and Margarita, With a Straw were screened there in 2005 and 2014 respectively. Priyanka has previously had two Bollywood film screenings at the festival - Mary Kom (2014) and What’s Your Raashee? (2009) to TIFF.
TIFF’s official website describes the film as “25 years in the relationship of a mother (Priyanka Chopra) and father (Farhan Akhtar) told from the perspective of their recently deceased teenage daughter, in this poignant, affecting, and unexpectedly humorous love story from director Shonali Bose”.
The Sky Is Pink is already garnering positive buzz. Festival programmer and writer Aseem Chhabra, who has also written Priyanka’s biography, ‘Priyanka Chopra: The Incredible Story of a Global Bollywood Star’, took to Twitter to praise her performance.
“in #ShonaliBose’s #TheSkyIsPink! Her departure from India has been quite a loss for the Hindi film industry,” he wrote.
TIFF’s official website describes the film as “25 years in the relationship of a mother (Priyanka Chopra) and father (Farhan Akhtar) told from the perspective of their recently deceased teenage daughter, in this poignant, affecting, and unexpectedly humorous love story from director Shonali Bose”.
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