This is such bull. In original story children were left alone with a case worker first few minutes after meeting that SW. There were allegations of child abuse. And when the worker showed up at their house mother left children with her and went to have a violent screaming match with her husband in the next room. So social worker naturally removed kids to protect them from witnessing abuse. It had nothing to do with feeding kids with their hand or anything remotely cultural. Unless abuse and fights in front of the children is a pillar of Indian culture, witch I don’t believe is.
And this movie portraying the very people who actually have children’s safety and well-being in mind like vile and evil kidnappers is disgusting. Or excusing abuse of a wife to the point of broken bones. And negligence of the father, absolutely appalling disregard of his own children’s well-being. It’s ugly. If I were Indian I would have been really upset with this movie.