The Great Indian Kitchen

Young dancer (Nimisha Sajayan) enters into an arranged marriage with a teacher from a conservative, traditionalist family (Suraj Venjaramoodu). The moment she moves into his house, she begins a bitter period, as she is expected to transform herself into the ideal housewife as quickly as possible. This social-critical drama, acclaimed by Indian and foreign critics, deliberately tries to differentiate itself from the big Bollywood blockbusters. Its simple story serves only as a necessary basis for a careful observation of the daily running of a household, especially the kitchen. The kitchen itself indeed becomes the very space in which patriarchal social norms, subtly keeping women in the position of those whose primary task is to serve men, are on full display. (Prague Indian Film Festival)