Image Credit: The Print It's been a while since I spoke about movies. This weekend the husband took me to watch this beautifully crafted piece, "Thappad", in the cinemas. A highly recommended watch indeed. If you haven't been following the promotions and the reviews, Thappad takes on the not-so-casual issue of casual patriarchy, that runs through any average Indian's life. We first see the protagonist, Amrita, through her every day routine, of a doting wife sustaining a man-child at home. We see her dorn in the adarsh-nari's kurta and chudidar's complete with the messy dupatta. (If it is by choice or by accident I am unsure. But it surely left an impression.) Her only flaw being she can't cook as well as the husband's mother. But in all other aspects she is the ideal wife, hovering over the husband in his presence, over his parents and the house in his absence. The next few minutes are spent building upto the event of the slap, and tha
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