Mrs. Movie Slammed For Playing 'Feminist Game' Sanya Malhotra's OTT Release Under Fire

(MENAFN- Live Mint) Sanya Malhotra's OTT release film, Mrs., has garnered significant attention as the film potrays woman's challenges and the societal expectations surrounding arranged marriages. However, the film has now come under the scanner of leading men's rights group, The Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF). The foundation has accused the film of playing feminists game.

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It said that the issues of women are always highlighted while other vulnerable groups such as children, men, elderly, and individuals with physical or mental disabilities who also endure abuse and neglect, are often overlooked in films.

“Women's issues are eating 80% of the cake when it comes to policies for protection of millions of vulnerable people,” SIFF said in its post.

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Taking to X, it wrote,“Women's are suffering, children are not facing any abuse in families. Women are suffering, men are not facing any crimes. Women are suffering abuse, senior citizens are not facing harassment in family. Women are suffering abuse, the physically and mentally challenged are not facing any abuse.”

The group, with over 38.7K followers on X, also recently shared a series of posts expressing their views on household tasks. The said that men should never share 50 percent housework as“70-80% material, cloths, furniture and gadgets are craved by women and enjoyed by women.”

In another post, it wrote,“What stress does a woman feel, while chopping vegetables and cooking food on a gas stove or doing dishes wearing gloves? Zero, Nothing. In fact, cooking is like a meditation. Is it highly stressful to press cloths or do laundry in a washing machine?”

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"Mrs" stars Malhotra as Richa, an aspiring dancer who is married off in a patriarchal family where she is reduced to doing household chores but ultimately resists her oppression. The film which was released on Zee5, also features Nishant Dahiya and Kanwaljit Singh in key roles. Directed by Arati Kadav, the film is adapted from the Malayalam film The Great Indian Kitchen.

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