Aneesh Sreekumar
Director Jeo Baby deftly employs the words "The Great Indian" to expose how little, in fact, the Indian kitchen really is. Focusing on a handful of characters drawn from real life, the movie effectively communicates the ideas it intended to.
The story had "rebellion" written all over it. This was visible right from the beginning when Science was thanked instead of God, alluding to the oncoming undermining of the latter.
It effectively throws searching questions at the hidden perils of arranged marriage, the sexual division of labour, love for tradition, casual mansplaining, the false narrative on menstruation, and the need for consent and foreplay, which are all part of the feminist zeitgeist of our times.
The director deserves a round of applause for handling a political hot potato without any cinematic compromises.
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