A recent Malayalam film that is racing applause and appreciation is ‘The Great Indian Kitchen’ helmed by Jeo Baby. The film revolves around the story of a newlywed woman who struggles to be the submissive wife that her husband and his family want her to be.It is the sad reality in the majority of homes in the country and women often become subjective to patriarchy. Women in the household never get any leaves and it’s very rare to see women getting leave from household works.
Now the film became the talk of the town one more time as a picture that depicts the storyline of the film is going viral on social media. While a section of netizens is glamorizing the hard work of women, be it mother wife, sister, another section of people are slamming the picture saying that the picture glorifies the patriarchy.
Going into detail, a picture in which a woman can be seen making Chapatis, while she was on an oxygen concentrator. The picture was captioned as “Unconditional love= *MOTHER* She is never off duty.”The viral picture has got the attention of the users. A section of people, including singer Chinmayi Sripaada, Tamil filmmaker named Naveen Mohamedali has come down severely on the picture.
‘How many homes in India have mothers not getting sick leave? Not sure if this lady is actually cooking with an oxygen cylinder near the gas stove (!) but even if it is fictional.Can this unconditional love trope that forces women to not take rest stop already?,’ Chinmayi tweeted.
“Whoever stood and took this picture instead of stopping her from working in the kitchen in this condition is the first immediate offender in this case, society is next,’ Journalist and author Gautam Mengle tweeted sharing the picture.
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