By: Amit kumaR Agarwal
Sanya Malhotra's Mrs. is accused of toxic feminism, after a men's rights organization, SIFF, found it to be overtly biased towards pseudo-feminism!
SIFF - Save Indian Family Foundation, wrote how men work 8-9 hours and much more in the corporate world. SIFF has criticized the film vehemently.
Mrs. tells the story of an aspiring dancer who is married into a patriarchal family where she is reduced to doing household chores but ultimately resists her oppression.
SIFF criticises Mrs., asks why men should do household chores. On X, SIFF wrote how men work 8-9 hours at construction sites, railway stations, airports, factories, courts, police stations, restaurants, and country's borders.
SIFF added that "a happy young woman cooking food, doing dishes and pressing clothes of her father-in-law is oppression for her". In a series of tweets, SIFF also said that "women inherently believe workplace means a comfortable air-conditioned place. They do not consider work at construction sites or at train stations etc. potential workplaces".
Reacting to the post, a fan of the film wrote, "That’s such a badly written post with little to no research women do work at construction sites and stations and airports and factories and courts and police stations and restaurants and in the army while being “permitted” only if they can manage the household too. So household chores are an added responsibility apart from work."
Another fan added for SIFF, "Why are you so threatened by a movie?? They don't impact anything in real life, right?? That's what we're told when we talk about movies like Arjun Reddy....art is art; everybody is free to make art. So what's the problem, guys? also, what is problematic/violent/provocative here?"
SIFF upped its ante and dismissed naysayers calling Mrs. nothing but ‘toxic feminism’.
BBN view is that be it Animal or Mrs. these films / series are plain commercial that tell a story and it should be looked that way.
The writer is surprised, no one pointed out, in Animal it was a-slap-for-a-slap - if Ranbir's character hit, so did Rashmika's - so where does 'toxic masculinity' come from.
In the end, no one knows, if these controversies are created just to pep-up the BO potential of film(s).