In the colorful melodrama “The Sky Is Pink,” a teenager tells the story of her family’s care and sacrifices from an unusual vantage point. Taking a refreshing attitude toward her own mortality, the recently deceased Aisha Chaudhary says, “I’m dead, get over it.”

Aisha (Zaira Wasim) provides her lively narration from beyond the grave in flashback form, following her parents, Aditi (Priyanka Chopra Jonas) and Niren (Farhan Akhtar), as they face her long-term illness with humor and tenacity. Though they have a healthy son, they lost their first child to the same genetic illness Aisha inherits, and they are determined her chances will be better. Guided by Aditi, the couple pursues treatments as far away from New Delhi as London. They cannot stop the illness, but they succeed in filling Aisha’s short life with warmth and joy.

The writer and director Shonali Bose bounces from tone to tone, livening the somber subject matter with bright hues, quippy dialogue and an ever-jubilant score. She is aided by the broadly appealing performances of her stars, particularly Jonas, whose character grandly strives and sacrifices for her daughter in amusingly high style. Though the story is told from Aisha’s imagined perspective, it is her mother who drives the action, and Jonas accordingly receives the film’s most lavish costumes and close-ups. The fantasy of “The Sky Is Pink” is that Aisha’s death allows her to see her mother with adoring omniscience, and the film is never more pleasing than when it revels in the glamorous melodrama of a superstar performing motherhood.

The Sky Is Pink

Not rated. In English and Hindi, with subtitles. Running time: 2 hours 14 minutes.