Vidya Arun

The movie fails the Bechdel test within the first two minutes itself. It seems like we have regressed to the dark ages where men behave like Neanderthals and women are portrayed as baby-makers and slaves of men. They are not allowed to be independent, have jobs, or opinions. Women get slapped, beaten, yelled at, treated horribly, and the movie shows them as spineless creatures who tolerate such behaviour and still stay with those chauvinistic men. The violence is extreme. There is nothing but killing, blood and gore from start to finish, peppered with scenes of sex, because, of course, sex sells. It is unbelievably shocking that this movie made so much money. Does this movie's commercial success indicate the way Indians in general think about gender roles in modern society? This is such a travesty!