The Great Indian Kitchen and Hindi remake Mrs : Why this remake outdid Original ?

The Great Indian Kitchen ‘s Hindi remake Mrs. achieved ZEE5’s highest opening ever. It has clocked a cumulative of 400 million+ streaming minutes ever since its premiere. It is the best performing and highest grossing film on the platform, with sustained engagement even weeks after its release. The film has also been the most searched movie during its release window and continues to trend across social platforms. It also got a Google user rating of 4.6/5. The Malayalam original like Mrs was an OTT release and not on any big platform but on Neestream. Critical praise took it to Amazon. In fact Amazon had rejected the film as there was an episode of a woman going to Sabarimala, a controversial topic. After the rave reviews, Prime bought it and this took it to other languages. It was remade in Tamil by R Kannan with Aishwarya Rajesh and had a theatrical release. It bombed. This is available on Zee5. The Tamil version too carried the Sabarimala episode but Hindi did not. A review on IMDb -Why always Tamil movies have so much hatred towards culture and traditions such as temple rituals, poojas. What does ill treating husbands, in laws have anything to do with pooja and sampradayam? Just watched Hindi version of the malayalam remake. Not watched the Malayalam original yet, but Mrs by Sanya Malhotra was just so amazing. The movie was so gripping, very practical. They don't disgrace religious traditions. Their stance is so well put in terms of social evils and they've portrayed it beautifully. I knew exactly what kind of a film this version would be when I knew immediately who was going to play the lead. The Malayalam film with Nimisha Sajayan and Suraj in the lead picked up several State awards. The Hindi version was directed by woman Director Arati Kadav. Those who have seen the original had this question to ask -Why the female character played by Sanya is not as angry as the one in the original? She says that it is the difference when the subject is handled by a woman. Arati says, "When a man tells a woman's story, he is absorbing the reality from a distance. Jeo Baby is a sensitive man. He could write and tell the story effectively. But for me, there's no distance. I have to be in Richa's shoe in every scene of the film. You can see how Richa is excited about getting married, how she sees the world around her, how she tries to please everyone. In her aspirations, we make the story more personal.". In line with films like Girls will be Girls and Lapaataa Ladies that gained fame through OTT, Mrs S too took the same route. The larger understanding is that male-centric masala films work well in theatres," Arati tells NDTV