Pink Saris

‘A girl’s life is cruel...a woman’s life is very cruel,’ notes Sampat Pal, the complex protagonist at the centre of Pink Saris - director Kim Longinotto’s foray into the lives of extraordinary women.

Sampat should know – like many others she was married as a young girl into a family which beat her often. But she fought back and eventually became a champion for beleaguered women throughout Uttar Pradesh, many of whom find their way to her doorstep. Like Rekha, a fourteen year old Untouchable, who is three months pregnant and homeless.

Fifteen year old Renu's husband from an arranged marriage has abandoned her, her father-in-law has been raping her and she's threatening to throw herself under a train. Both young women reach out for their only hope - Sampat Pal and her Gulabi Gang, Northern India’s women vigilantes in pink.