Fontanella-Khan, Amana

Examines the true story of Indian woman Sampat Pal, founder of the "Gulabi Gang," a gang of nearly ten thousand women in India who rebel against the traditional chauvinism of India by wearing pink saris and officiating marriages of love, not of parental arrangement.

In Uttar Pradesh, a woman's life is not entirely her own. Stories of forced marriages, early pregnancies and worse, the women of Uttar Pradesh have known they are not important. But this has changed with the emergence of the Gulabi (Pink) Gang. Sampat Pal, the leader of what has become known as the Pink Sari Revolution, and her women's brigade (numbering in the tens of thousands) have taken control. Uniformed in pink saris and carrying pink batons, they aim to intervene wherever other women are victims of abuse and injustice. Poor and illiterate, married off at age twelve, pregnant with her first child at fifteen, and prohibited from attending school, Sampat Pal has confronted policemen and gangsters and empowered Indian women to become financially independent.