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The Great Indian Kitchen

  • 2023
  • 1h 40m
IMDb RATING
5.7/10
683
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Aishwarya Rajesh and Yogi Babu in The Great Indian Kitchen (2023)
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Post her marriage, a woman tries to fit into the conventional mould that society has prescribed for married women. But somewhere along the way, she starts feeling that this is not the life s... Read allPost her marriage, a woman tries to fit into the conventional mould that society has prescribed for married women. But somewhere along the way, she starts feeling that this is not the life she wants.Post her marriage, a woman tries to fit into the conventional mould that society has prescribed for married women. But somewhere along the way, she starts feeling that this is not the life she wants.

  • Director
    • R. Kannan
  • Writer
    • Jeo Baby
  • Stars
    • Yogi Babu
    • Kalairani
    • Poster Nandakumar
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.7/10
    683
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • R. Kannan
    • Writer
      • Jeo Baby
    • Stars
      • Yogi Babu
      • Kalairani
      • Poster Nandakumar
    • 14User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Yogi Babu
    Yogi Babu
    Kalairani
    Kalairani
    Poster Nandakumar
    Mekha Rajan
    Mekha Rajan
    Aishwarya Rajesh
    Aishwarya Rajesh
    Rahul Ravindran
    Rahul Ravindran
    Nimisha Sajayan
    Nimisha Sajayan
    Sindhujaavijii
    • Hero Sister
    Dipti Sree
    • Manju
    Suraj Venjaramoodu
    Suraj Venjaramoodu
    Vijayashree
    • Social activist role
    • Director
      • R. Kannan
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      • Jeo Baby
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    9sahabazrajashaikh

    Reality that seems Unreal and Boring

    The Great Indian Kitchen is a representation of most of the middle class family of India. The direction of the movie is fantastic that if we watch the full movie with our most focused mind we will be forced to withdraw our attention from the movie and here is the greatness of the movie that we can feel the regular boring and as well as hard life of a woman in a so called patriarchal society. Another movie titled "Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hai" is also represent this type of critical environment but with a mixture of spices of comedy and unreality but this movie does not lack that thing. It has every element that can meet us the face to face with the absolute reality of women's condition in most of the world.
    10mayaups

    An eye-opener for some, rubbish for nay-sayers

    A story too real and sort of leaves a bad taste in your mouth, but an eye-opener. Anyone who denies that it has an "anti-religious agenda" or "destroying tradition" definitely portray who they relate to in the movie, and are sadly confusing religion and mysogyny.

    While some may say its targeting a certain ethnic group, I do not hesitate to say that it carries a message that goes beyond borders and touches everyone.

    The movie captures the contrast between the beautiful Kerala and the ugly face of mysogyny and hypocrasy of the people. We used this movie as a starting point to open discussion around gender roles and stereotypes.
    1saru2020

    baseless & very poorly made

    One of the worst movies ever made.

    The content is purely based on feminism but if you look at the characterization of the female protagonist, you'd feel that that character is fully baseless and doesn't really connect with us at all.

    So many sequences in the film are deliberately injected just to portray that females are actually being used only for kitchen work which could've been easily avoided by presenting some justification from the male characters' side as well but they just avoided it totally and it made us feel like watching an artificially made film just to showcase one's opinion and provides no actual solution to the problem as well, especially the climax of the film was just absurd.

    The one good thing wrt male characterization that gave a tiny bit of justification was wrt the father-in-law's characters who're the people from the previous generation against whom these kinda films are actually made.

    Overall, if you're a feminist and really want to get your brain drained with a single point of view kind of an opinion, then this film is for you but if you really are a seeker of equality then it's an easily avoidable one.
    4naughtyreachme

    Far from reality

    It has become common for directors to blindly, take a point about women and just throw it on public. One more movie towards feminism as it portrays always one-sided picture. Wondering that being a mother, they don't feel burden but everything becomes problem as a daughter in law. However, both are women.

    Movie just shows something that gives an impression that male dominance is creating problems.

    Aishwarya's acting is good as usual but keep on coming up with the same content is kind of making things out of track. Every show and every movie is like copy cat content where some category of women can applaud.
    1veenaasavari

    Gruelling 2 hours

    The movie focuses on stigmatising the Indian traditions, so pointlessly that it becomes at some point sordid to watch the movie.

    Add to this the recent controversy of women entering Sabarimala temple and the poor movie maker thought, it might be the perfect recipe for a controversy.

    Throw in a little menstrual fluid, they might thought, the movie will get a PIL notice at least and viewership of the movie on OTT at least is guaranteed.

    At some point, little did they realise that harping on a point too much makes it stale.

    I am sorry for Aishwarya to have undertaken such movies. Would be a blow to her career.

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      • February 3, 2023 (India)
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    • Language
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