Male Catering Service Provided By Kitchen Politics: On the whole, this Jio Baby film, which may seem like a morning joke of a group, tells the politics of women behind the scenes. These politics highlighted by Jio Baby is clear again when it comes from Pennukla at Great Indian Kitchen to Pannukla at Sreedhanya Catering Service.
The Great Indian Kitchen is a Jio Baby film that showed Malayalis the relevance of women’s politics through the lives of women in homes.
Jio Baby and his team have been able to make the story centered around the ancestral house in the countryside a mirror to the women who live in the interiors of most of the houses in Kerala.
In the Great Indian Kitchen, Sridhanya Catering Service is the epitome of the male Tukkala in Oraghoshaara when it shows the lives of the majority of women who cannot jump out of the home kitchen through the plights of women.
Shino, the main character of the film, and his men gathered to make biryani for his daughter’s first birthday. The group includes a child who came to his father with his uncle in school uniform to a teacher who taught most of the people in that country.
While the film focuses on the celebration of the male group, it also points to the miseries of women’s lives behind the scenes.
The story revolves around a group of men who have gathered to make biryani for Shino’s daughter’s birthday, the conversations that take place in between, unexpected guests, and possible amali.
As drinking becomes rampant during the Biryani party, conflicts and unnecessary egos flare up among the men. These masculinist discourses have a profound effect on the women in the story.
If we take the case of Shino, the owner of Sreedhanya Catering Service, the central character, starts the catering service with the money he got as a dowry after marriage. The story also mentions the situation of the catering service that is being held.
At the end of the festive night, when the biryani turned into porridge, the problem that the men could not fix even after hours, reached the head of Shino’s wife Sreedhanya. Sreedhanya foresees this and prepares a plan B to solve the problem. After the event, Shino comes to help to pay the debt and it is in front of Sreedhanya.
Another female character in the film is the wife of a middle-aged plowman, who works in wiring. She is a self-sufficient woman who takes care of her family without going to work and drinking with her friends. They are driving the Kudumbashree Auto to take him and his son home who had passed out during the men’s party.
Another character with a Great Indian Kitchen reference is Jilu Joseph’s character as CB’s wife, played by director Jio Baby.
In the Great Indian Kitchen, there is a scene where the men take over the kitchen with the guest. Sreedhanya and Jilu Joseph’s female characters pass through this context.
The celebrations of the men’s group are held at CB’s house. When Jilu’s character returns to her family home for a party, she sees a dirty house and a drunk husband.
A girlfriend who corrects her progressive boyfriend by telling him feminists but doing the opposite in life. A woman living with an alcoholic husband with the aim of PSC is unable to unite with her boyfriend due to fear of society.
A vlogger girl who goes to a far country with a bike to give a surprise to her friend. The girl who runs a mobile workshop and comes to repair a bike that has broken down on the road are also female characters who deserve a special mention in the film.
On the whole, this Jio Baby film, which may seem like a morning joke of a group, tells the politics of women behind the scenes. These politics highlighted by Jio Baby is clear again when it comes from Pennukla at Great Indian Kitchen to Pannukla at Sreedhanya Catering Service.
Looking at the picture, men’s cooking is a money-making catering service, and women’s cooking is a free service of family duty.
Content Highlight: Writeup of Vishnu PS about the connection between the movies Sree Dhanya Catering service and Great Indian Kitchen
