Thankfully, new-age Malayalam cinema is dissecting this with a scalpel. Films like Kumbalangi Nights showed the toxicity of a dysfunctional motherless house, while The Great Indian Kitchen showed the mother-in-law as the chief enforcer of patriarchal misery.
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