A Dynamic Vision on the Contemporary Global Literature

This paper deals with a gender-based comparative analysis of two Indian movies, which are The Great Indian Kitchen (2021), a Malayalam movie directed by Jeo Baby, and its Hindi adaptation Mrs. (2024), directed by Arati Kadav. Both films focus on any new bride‘s experience of adapting to husband‘s house and the associated gender-discrimination. The films clearly depict how a mere bride becomes a ‗house-wife‘ or a more sophisticated ‗homemaker‘. However, between the films, the source film in Malayalam stands as a strong protest against the age-old domestic patriarchy, while its Hindi adaptation slightly deviates from that original adamant stand and softens the ways house-hold gender-discrimination is portrayed. By comparing various aspects like, characters, scenes, dialogues, colour and so on, under the theoretical framework of Feminist Film Theory, the paper explains how The Great Indian Kitchen becomes an authentic reflection of gender-inequality within the walls of any Indian household and how its adaptation Mrs. weakens the strength of the message it originally intended to convey.
Keywords:
Gender-discrimination, Women, Movie, Adaptation, Comparison, Great Indian Kitchen