jaya jaya

 One has to say Malayalam filmdom is rare one that it has the temerity to make films which aren't in the run of the mill ones like with a hero heroine and the works .

The variety of subjects it takes and the melding of its cast to roles not fitting the moulds is just amazing.

This is one such film .

Male chauvinism is an Indian trait and Kerala men at least many aren't much different.

Mollycoddled by their mothers many Malayalee men are spoilt children with mustaches who build a wall of defense of arrogance and cynicism to safeguard their inadequacies.

Many use anger or violence to establish the superiority they are made to realize is their birthright.

What happens when the woman reacts to one such loser is the story.

In the film the hero a small-time wholesale poultry Farmer with some success in it a doting mother and a helpless divorced sister who are all dependent on him is an Emperor within the confines of his house where from his daily breakfast of string hoppers which his mother makes so meticulously to the chilies for drying everything is done to suit his whims.

So he marries and brings a girl home who is a bright student and wants to study further but is married off by her family.

In a few days, the man started slapping his wife on and off to establish his power later apologizing for it typical of domestic violence prevalent in real life.

No one objects to this slapping at home and the girl's parents just ask her to adjust.

So one fine day when slapped she gives him an unexpected hard slap and finally a kick which sends him sprawling.

We come to know over the past few months she had been studying karate online and learned it pretty well.

The husband is wary for sometime later, hesitating to ask her if she dares hit him again.

The slaps passed on between the two ends up in her kicking him so much that he gets thrown out of the house just when his mother and sister come back home from a wedding.

There's some talk of compromise and they live together for some time.

He sweet-talks her into getting pregnant as advised by his friend to tie her to eternal domesticity.

She comes to know of this walks out on him and lives in a working women's hostel takes a bank loan and starts an enterprise.

The video of her hitting him which he had recorded becomes viral and in humiliation, he files for a divorce.

The courtroom scenes with a brilliant lady judge asking questions to both exposes the male chauvinism prevalent in society .

In the end she too signs for a mutual divorce and has a last laugh when she too buys a poultry business to compete and almost destroy his .

To approach such a sensitive but alive topic with sensibility and humour the film passes a message that both men and women are equal and its better to adjust be flexible be complimentary to each other .

A story told with finesse.

Ultimately it always conveys that intelligence skill alone isn't sufficient for success, you need a complimentary supportive environment

For eg the lady hero of the film is far more clever than all in her family or the family she married to.

She would have reached heights in a career like being an IAS officer or professional if allowed to study before or after the wedding but she has lesser beings who never supported her no not even understood her.

She shows signs of business management too when she tried to correct her husband's poultry farm workers who ignored her and her husband too carried it in his foolish ways

If only he had included her as a partner in business she would have made it a better success but ultimately he grew her as a competition and IM sure she would become a corporate magnate.

How many girls are there suppressed and stuck in small egos in the state?

Intriguing question indeed.