Jhuma Parial-Bhattacharya

One Child Nation based on the one child policy implemented in China has revealed a bitter truth regarding parents - children relationship. If you are not allowed to have second child then you will be eager to have a boy as your only child. And if your first born-cum-only child is born as a girl you will then try to abort the foetus or kill or abandon her after birth on the street anonymously. That means you have no love towards your child. You are pleasing your child because he is a son and because he will feed you, take care of you and your husband in future at any cost. Then you are satisfied with the single child. If this child was born as a girl you will abort her and kill or abandon her on the street to die because the baby is a daughter and will not look after you in future. How do these parents expect unconditional gratitude and respect from their children? And why do then society and culture make these only sons parroting the lie that their parents love them unconditionally and they are like god and goddess? While after implementation of one child policy many parents killed their first born children because they were girls then we can say that this policy helped those first and second born boy children to understand that their parents are utterly cruel self centred persons and they don't actually love their sons at all. All their expressions of love are nothing but show business to fix the system so that they utilise their sons in future. Isn't it?

I never wrote any review before. The Great Indian Kitchen has inspired me to pen a few words down in public. It's a beautifully and subtly depicted reality of male-centric patriarchal kitchen run by the labour of women (educated, undereducated, uneducated, working at and or outside home, earning, non-earning) to serve mainly male members of families. Keeping in view of the satisfaction of taste buds and health of males in families. How males from their early-childhood are made to unlearn etiquettes and table manners and to unlearn also to respect females universally and learn to degrade and humiliate their female counterparts through words and body languages directly and indirectly. I don't blame it on men because they learn to think and behave like from their early-childhood and can't follow that their actions and reactions are humiliating ones. Expect this film lets at least some among us to think anew.