The Great Indian Kitchen (2021)

Original title

മഹത്തായ ഭാരതീയ അടുക്കള

Directed by

Jeo Baby

Genre

drama

Country

India

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

U

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 54 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A newly married woman moves in with her husband and his family. She faces constant pressure to conform to traditional domestic roles.

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What happens

The Great Indian Kitchen is a 2021 Indian Malayalam-language drama film written and directed by Jeo Baby. The film tells the story of a newly-wed woman (Nimisha Sajayan) who struggles to be the submissive wife that her husband (Suraj Venjaramood) and his family expect her to be. The music was composed by Sooraj S. Kurup and Mathews Pulickan. The film was released on Neestream on 15 January 2021. The film received critical acclaim and won Kerala State Film Award for Best Film, Best Screenplay award for Baby and Best Sound Designer award for Tony Babu. The film was remade in Tamil in 2023 under the same title, with Aishwarya Rajesh and Rahul Ravindran in the lead roles. A Hindi remake, Mrs. with Sanya Malhotra and Nishant Dahiya in lead roles, was released in 2025. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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