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The film, which premiered on Neestream in January, featured Nimisha Sajayan as a housewife enduring, and eventually liberating herself, from the torment of patriarchal conventions.
Most Indian kitchens, even those with the freshest of ingredients, tell a rather rotten story.
The Great Indian Kitchen, a Malayalam film, set in an upper-middle-class traditional Kerala home, tells this with a camera that rarely ever leaves the kitchen.
It’s a visual story, no hard-hitting dialogues or monologues that deliver the trauma of a woman as she transitions from a dewy-eyed new bride to a haggard woman of the house, whose primary responsibility is to churn out freshly-cooked meals three times a day.
Eat, rinse, repeat
The camera is relentless in capturing every detail of the back-breaking work that goes into making the ‘simple’ everyday Kerala recipes. Rinsing, peeling, chopping, cooking. Coconut that needs to be ground by hand on a stone and rice that needs to be cooked on wood fire. Fish bought by the father-in-law, meticulously cleaned, cut and cooked into a curry by the eager-to-please daughter-in-law. Warm dosas, which are served one by one to the men of the
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Malayalam film The Great Indian Kitchen selected for Shanghai International Film Festival 2021
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Last Updated: Apr 10, 2021, 12:20 PM IST
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The movie has been praised for exploring the dehumanising nature of patriarchy.
The film, available on streaming platforms Neestream and Amazon Prime Video, had received heartwarming reviews from critics and fans. (Photo: Screengrab)
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NEW DELHI: Director Jeo Baby s Malayalam film The Great Indian Kitchen , one of the most loved and critically-acclaimed films this year, has been selected for the Shanghai International Film Festival 2021.
The movie has been praised for exploring the dehumanising nature of patriarchy and how it chains Indian women to the kitchen.