Movie: Mrs
Dir: Arati Kadav
On: Zee5
Cast: Sanya Malhotra, Kanwaljeet Singh, Nishant Dahiya
Rating: 4/5

Indigestion. Heartache. Restlessness. No, these aren`t the symptoms of an illness. This is what one is left feeling after watching director Arati Kadav`s gut punching feminist drama, Mrs. Every second of this Sanya Malhotra-starrer features food, which looks relishing but feels repulsive. It`s hard to recall the last time such gorgeous and intimate shots of different food items were on screen, yet there was nothing appetizing about them. Because when was the last time a Hindi filmmaker turned the gaze towards the dehumanising labour that goes into serving that finger-licking `home cooked` food. Of course The Great Indian Kitchen did, the 2021 Malayalam gem, written-directed by Jeo Baby, that also inspires Mrs. 

But in Hindi cinema, Mrs stands tall and perhaps alone in showing the ugliness of a neat, clean, educated Indian household, where the gynaecologist husband doesn`t let his wife enter the kitchen during her periods, the economics graduate mother-in-law sacrifices her chance at a career to make her son a doctor, and the father-in-law knows every recipe but never enters the kitchen.