Priyanka Chopra and Shonali Bose pop champagne for a very special occasion and we have the details

Author and filmmaker Shonali Bose’s late son Ishaan would have turned 25 today if he was alive. In his remembrance the director was seen popping champagne and celebrating his birthday with Priyanka Chopra, the star of Shonali’s film The Sky Is Pink which is inspired by Ishaan’s life and death. The director took to Instagram to share some heart-warming feelings about the bond she shared with her son, Ishaan and about her feelings when Priyanka agreed to hop on board for her film The Sky Is Pink. The cast of The Sky Is Pink includes Priyanka Chopra, Farhan Akhtar and Zaira Wasim.

Here’s an excerpt from the National Award winning director’s heartfelt post:
A quarter century ago I became a mother for the first time in my life. Today is that radiant child’s 25th birthday and I’m in the middle of celebrations feeling blessed and joyous. He gifted me a pair of pink pants (a complete sign for The Sky is Pink) – the story is too convoluted to put down but he totally gifted me them. Last year on his birthday I woke up to a text that Priyanka had read my script and could I fly to New York. I knew right then that this was from Ishan and he was blessing the film. And it would be a magical journey and it was. All year I felt him so strongly. Through joy and sorrow – holding me like a rose in the palm of his hand. His wise brother told me at breakfast today as I chomped down a grilled cheese sandwich and hash browns in IHOP (I break my diet on his birthday and Deathday) that my relationship with him was so strong it defeated death and went beyond it. I have indeed felt it grow and deepen year by year. While shooting the Deathday scene in The Sky is Pink – I felt only light and joy and could hold all my actors and crew in my arms with strength as they were struggling. Pri used some of my stories of Ishan to draw from for her performance. Once she turned to me before a take and asked if she could call Ishan (the character in the movie) – Ishlu – my name for my son. I was so moved. And so it was lovely to celebrate with her in the middle of the birthday today. She insisted on opening champagne and would not allow me to have green tea! And we toasted him up in the sky on this lovely sunny day. More celebrations ahead with my besties Gee and Kittu and Viv and me gorging more junk at California Pizza Kitchen (I ordered from there for Ishan’s last birthday meal – his 16th – while we were shooting Chittagong. He was so thrilled and psyched that I could do that all the way from Lataguri, Bengal.)

We love her tribute to her late son and now it’s no surprise that the film is about him. What do you all think about the movie? Comment below