Rajjo runs a Gulaab gang in the village of Madhopur, where she teaches little girls their alphabet and grown-up girls how to wield a lathi. Her gang is made up of women who wear bright pink. Rajjo's closest friends in the gang are a tomboy (Divya Jagdale), a woman abandoned by her husband (Tannishtha Chatterjee), and a kohl-eyed woman (Priyanka Bose). These ladies go about standing up for the meek and the downtrodden and clash against villainous husbands, cops and politicians. The plot gains momentum when Rajjo decides to take part in the local elections against Sumitra Devi. Sumitra does her best to make sure Rajjo is incapacitated during election campaigns by having most of her gang members killed by the henchmen. Towards the end, Rajjo decides to take revenge against Sumitra. During Holi celebrations, when Sumitra conspires to finish off the Gulaab Gang, Rajjo retaliates by chopping off Sumitra Devi's hand as the latter tries to shoot the gang with a machine gun. In the end, Sumitra is arrested and is sentenced to life in prison and Rajjo is also arrested for her violent retribution. However, Rajjo eventually realises her dream of establishing a school for unprivileged girls.
As the film is based on the rural parts of India, many cast members would be portraying de-glamorous roles.[7] Initially, actress Tabu was approached to play the lead, but due to a lack of funds filming could not be started.[8] In April 2012, Soumik Sen approached Madhuri Dixit about the film.[9] Later, Dixit officially announced her part in the film through her Facebook page.[10] Tabu was then approached to play the second lead role, which she in turn declined; the role eventually went to Juhi Chawla, making Gulaab Gang the first time former rivals[11] Chawla and Dixit have been on screen together.[12][13] In December 2012, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Divya Jagdale, and Priyanka Bose signed on to play members of the gang.[14]
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The gang has reported to have grown since 2010 and has been active in regions of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.[7] In 2014, the group estimated around 270,000 members.[7] To become a member of the Gulabi Gang, women are expected to pay a registration fee of 100 rupees. Members wear bright pink saris and carry lathis, or wooden sticks, for protection. When a women is assisted by the gang, she is expected to join the gang and contribute to the mission of assisting other women.[3]
While men are not permitted to be members of the gang, many male villagers play an active supporting role.[4] One such examples is Jai Prakash Shivhari, who joined to stand in solidarity against issues like government corruption, child marriages, and dowry deaths.[2] Often, a few male supporters will accompany the gang to gatherings and protests for the safety purposes. Because many villages predominantly only educate men, male supporters also assist with administrative tasks that require reading, writing, and math skills.[4] The gang's initiatives have also been advantageous for many male villagers, who have increasingly requested the group's assistance in their advocacy campaigns.[8] For instance, when Banda farmers staged a demonstration to demand compensation for failed crops, they sought the Gulabi Gang's support.[8] This collaboration has encouraged more men to openly endorse the gang's endeavors and be more receptive to the idea of their own female relatives joining the group.[3]
On March 2, 2014, Pal was relieved of her role as the head of the Gulabi Gang amid allegations of financial impropriety and putting her personal interests before those of the group.[10][11] Pal denied these allegations and still has some involvement in the gang.[12] The members elected Suman Singh Chauhan, formerly the assistant commander of the group to run the group.[13]
The group also participates in occupations, often using a traditional tactic, gherao, which involves surrounding government buildings as a show of force.[2] In 2008, they surrounded an electricity office in Banda district where officials had cut the village's power in order to extract bribes and sexual favors.[14] The gang members locked the staff inside the office building and vowed to only remove the lock if electricity was restored. The officials complied in less than an hour.[8] In June 2007, Pal heard that government-run fair-price shops were not distributing food and grains to the villagers as they should. She led the Gulabi Gang to observe the shop undercover and they collected evidence and discovered that trucks were shipping the shop's grains to open markets. Pal and the group reported the evidence to local authorities and demanded that the grain be returned to the fair-price shops. The local authorities ignored their complaints but the reputation of the Gang was bolstered.[15]
When intervening in a domestic violence case, the gang begins by approaching the police. They only pursue the case if the police does not respond or acts unjustly.[3] In their intervention, the gang first reasons with the abuser and demands he stop the abuse. If he doesn't comply, the wife joins the gang in thrashing the husband. According to Sampat, the Gulabi Gang has had a 100% success rate in bringing justice to domestic violence complaints and has thrashed hundreds of abusive husbands.[2]
Pal Devi has said that "Yes, we fight rapists with lathis [large bamboo sticks]. If we find the culprit, we thrash him black and blue so he dare not attempt to do wrong to any girl or a woman again." Suman Singh, a later commander of the gang, mentioned that when "a woman seeks the membership of Gulabi Gang, it is because she has suffered injustice, has been oppressed and does not see any other recourse. All our women can stand up to the men and if need be seek retribution through lathis."[16][17]
All members of the group are expected to wear a uniform of a pink sari and carry a wooden stick. Sampat Pal Devi claims the pink sari uniform commands respect and protection for the gang's members.[2] While the sari is not obligatory, Pal Devi argues that it gives the women a "sense of community" and ensures they are "taken seriously".[7]
A major goal of the Gulabi Gang is to promote financial security and independence among women. The Gulabi Gang has established many small business that sell handmade products at nearby markets for profit. They work in small-scale industries such as organic manure, candles, Ayurvedic medicines, and pickles.[3] These small business often employ other women, such as Prema Rambahori's leaf plate making business that employs 500 other women.[3] The gang has also promoted business in the wedding market by training women to manage wedding venues and provide services such as catering, tailoring, creating flower arrangements, and applying henna.[4]
One goal of the Gulabi Gang was to reduce illiteracy among young women and expand education access to lower caste people. In 2008, a Pal Devi created a school in Banda, where at least 400 girls attended.[18] Furthermore, the gang often visits households to advise parents on educating girls and encourage students to attend classes.[3] One member of the Gulabi Gang, Chandania Devi, claimed that the group was also able to find a teacher for an unstaffed school in a predominantly Dalit village.[2]
Despite their rejection of party affiliations, Gulabi Gang members have gained significant political power. In 2010, 21 members were elected for panchayat positions, which oversee local issues such as road construction, water sanitation, and agricultural development schemes.[3] Many of the gang members are able to use the Panchayati Raj Act of 1993, which reserves one-third of seats for women and marginalized groups.[4]
"Gulaab Gang" is a film advocating education for girls and autonomy for women, made by a first-time director who faced enormous obstacles in getting it made. That thumbnail version makes it almost impossible to root against the film, although some of Soumik Sen's obstacles were of his own creation. His claims that the film is fiction and that any resemblance to real people is coincidental strain credibility to the breaking point, as the pink saris worn by the title gang are the very ones worn by the real-life Gulabi Gang, whose name Sen didn't even bother to change, and upon whose founder Sen's protagonist is heavily based. This led to legal disputes that threatened to delay release of the movie. All of this is meant not to reignite the debates about poetic license in fictional films drawn from real life, but to make the point that "Gulaab Gang" is a movie whose director needs to get out of its way. Which is a wildly delicious bit of irony, considering that it's about women taking charge of their own lives, and that Sen is a man.
Ultimately "Gulaab Gang" is a compelling ninety minute underdog-vs.-the-system action picture that has the misfortune to unfold over the course of two hours and twenty minutes. Its lulls never entirely kill it, but it's only through the power of Madhuri Dixit's performance in the lead as Rajjo and Juhi Chawla's astonishingly villainous turn as the corrupt politician whom Rajjo must take down that "Gulaab Gang" maintains the momentum necessary to power through to the end. It starts promisingly, with a narrated intro concisely setting up Rajjo's motivations in starting the ashram where she educates girls for free and, when necessary, organizes them into a fighting force. The way Rajjo and gang deal with one oily local extortionist bureaucrat is immensely satisfying. But once the main story, involving the ambitious politician (Chawla) who seeks to co-opt the gang to burnish her own feminist and populist credentials, the pace begins to dip rather badly.
For choosing this material and these actors to play it, and for the terrific, organic camaraderie of the title gang, Soumik Sen is to be commended. He shoots interestingly, in the manner of a talented but raw newcomer. But he has a tendency to repeat himself, and there are long stretches of "Gulaab Gang" where nothing's happening at all, and there's no reason why the next thing that happens couldn't have happened before the preceding ten minutes of wheel-spinning. This can be written off to Sen being a rookie director with an as-yet unrefined style. But Sen's appropriation of a well-known, previously-filmed story, not changing much of anything essential, and presenting it as a fictionalization sits a little weird. be457b7860
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