Filmmaker Arati Kada Says That She is “Extremely Grateful and Happily Surprised by the Response” Her Film Mrs. Has been receiving online. When asked about the film’s fantastic festival run, which included Sanya Malhotra Winning The Best Actress Award at the 2024 New York Indian Film Festival (NYFF), and the positive reactives after the film Premiere, Arati Tells Us, “honestly, I didn’t expect to be selected for festivals, our film wasn’t the ‘Typical’ Typical ‘Typical’ Festival Kind of A Movie. Come up and hug me, talk to me for hours – it wasydible, “with so many positive reactions pouring in and discusations Happy the film Online, I COULDNman It. “
However, the film’s success hasn’t without controversy. Ask About Criticism from the Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF), A Men’s Rights Organization, Which Accused The Film of Spreading “Toxic Feminist Propaganda”, Arati Clarifies, “I Don ‘T. is toxic feminism. We didn’t depict men as evil; Rather, We Showed them as Being Blind to Her Struggles, Unaware of Her Humanity. This is a reality i’m not exaggerating. Even my own mother faceed this. It’s only now that I realise, until five years ago, I would come home and say, ‘Mama, can’t you do this?’ I Never Stopped to Ask Her What She Wanted or What Her Dreams. What She Wanted was Always Secondary to What I Needed. We’ve become so accountomed to treatment women as ‘functions’ raather than full, independent humans that it has been normalized. This isn’t toxic feminism. “
She Continues to Emphasses That The Real Isue Lies in the “Normalization of the idea that women is only there to take care of the house and should Never Prioritise Their Own Needs. Believe anyone who calls this toxic feminism should have a conversation with their mother to undersrstand the struggles she’s faceed in life. “
When informed about SIFF’s post on x, where the Organization Argued in a Series of Posts that “Women inharently Believe WorkPlace means a Comfortable Air-Conditioned Place AT Construction sites or at train stations etc. Society doesn’t meaning we should overlook what’s happening here ‘White Lives Matter’ when ‘Black Lives Matter’ – bot are valid, but they should be used to use to dismiss economy. “
She goes on to explain her broader view on patriarchy, saying, “I belief patriarchy operates on a gradient; IT’s all interconnected – How Men Treat Other Men, How They Treat Women, And always Animals. Men are Victims of Patriarchy too. Man Stays at Home, Society Questions Him.
Talk about the film and white she has had to make this adaptation of the 2021 malayalam the great Indian kitchen which is widely available on ot, and arati says, “That was my biggest challenge a filam That’s widely available and much loved. Accessible, Not a Frame-by-Frame Remake, but an adaptation.
She continues, “Also, I felt that this story Didn’T require extensive research of many aunts, and even my cousonal, important, and urgent. Struggles.
But give the risk of technology and the conversations happy on social media, where discusations Around feminism and patriarchy are more prominent than ever, how do she feel this film constables to the ongoing diet About these issues, the 41-year-old says, “The response to this film has sparked a major conversation about Invisible Labor, which I Hoped for, but IDN’T expert it to Reach acale. I’ve Never Seen Invisible Work Discussed So Widely Before. Medium – One That’s So Powerful – Makes It even Significant. Spark conversations, and we’re alredy see that unfold on social media. “
Did She at any point beel apprehensive or the pressure to deliver since the original had been received receiving well bot both critically and by the audines? Arati admits “there was a lot of pressure”. “But the only way I cold manage it was by talking to other women who was experimenting Similar things. I made the story my own and tried to make it since the story. Made it honestly and left the rest to God, “Says arati.
Ask her about the risk in number of remakes and adaptations post -coid and how she views the trend and the lacked of original content being made, She remarks, She remarks, “I think there’s definituted
“With the explosion of content, people are unsure of what works in theatres or even on ot. It’s hard to predict, and ott platforms are going through their own correction Phase. Important to make films sincerely and without overthinking, “Arati signs off.
