Produced by Harman Baweja’s Baweja Movies, and directed by Arati Kadav, 'Mrs.' is the official Hindi remake of Jeo Baby's critically-acclaimed Malayalam film ‘The Great Indian Kitchen’, and also stars Nishant Dahiya and Kanwaljit Singh in key roles.
'The Great Indian Kitchen' director, whose Jyothika and Mammootty-starrer film, 'Kaathal — The Core', on a revolutionary subject, released in theatres today, talks about working with the actor he grew up watching, launching new faces, and remakes of his film.
How men come off in these stories, where the heroism is completely reserved for the female protagonist, has to be convincing and that particular empathy walks the tightrope.
"The Great Indian Kitchen": The critically-acclaimed Malayalam original portrays the travails of a newly-wed woman, played by Nimisha Sajayan, stuck in the confines of a kitchen.
There is a need for a sensitive conversation about gender roles in every household. The Great Indian Kitchen puts that across succinctly
There’s a lot that is left to be desired from a society where the injustice towards women is trivialised, normalised and, even worse, unseen
'The Great Indian Kitchen' holds up a mirror to everything that's wrong with the gender equation in traditional Indian homes and marriages. Fair warning: Don't eat while watching it.