SOMETHING'S COOKING

Actress Sanya Malhotra shines in Mrs., the Hindi remake of the 2021 Malayalam drama, The Great Indian Kitchen

- Suhani Singh

In 2021, a Malayalam film dropped on OTT and struck a touchy nerve with women over what was either their lived reality or their worst nightmare come alive. That Jeo Baby's brutal kitchen drama, The Great Indian Kitchen, came in the midst of the pandemic, when everyone was cloistered in their homes, only aggravated the torment its leading lady (Nimisha Sajayan) was put through. Sanya Malhotra remembers watching and being inspired by Sajayan's class act and also "feeling trapped, uncomfortable, moved and irritated".