JUICE

The short movie JUICE was released in 2017 written by Ranjan chandel,  Neeraj Ghaywan and Suraj Majhi. It's produced by Lalit Prem sharma. This movie basically shows how difficult is the life of women in our country. The movie starts with all the men having their time laughing , drinking while on the other hand the ladies are in the kitchen cooking. Mr. Singh and his wife Manju have hosted a small get together in their house where the men are busy boozing and talking about the world. Manju is seen cleaning the leftovers from the table. Manju along with women gang is starving in the hot kitchen to keep the party going on for the men. The film focuses on the gender difference in a middle-class background where a struggling woman meets all end to keep everything right but doesn't get her due. We can see how Mr Singh orders his wife Manju to make sure that the children's are not disturbing them. The characters around manju sway between irritating and ignorant, the sounds and smells of delicious food add to the assault on her senses, the heat is stifling, while the "intimateness" of the city flat makes it seem like the walls are closing in. 

Here, the women cooked in the kitchen and brought in delicacies for their husbands to enjoy, at a small gathering at the Singh residence.The conversation the men were having juxtaposed the actions of their wives. Every time they spoke of women being weak, soft or incapable of handling the outside world, their wives would be dealing with a problem in the kitchen that overrode all such assumptions. Can a woman not travel in the heat and humidity for work when she is otherwise experiencing the same while cooking in a kitchen that almost becomes a furnace in the heat? We can see how Manjus husband totally ignores when she calls him to fix the fan and instead of helping her its seems he is jot even bothered to make sure if his wife is okay. Manju's  character who was played by Shefali Shah brilliantly portrays the frustration and silent rebellion that builds up inside a housewife. She makes each performance of hers look effortless and is always earnest. Although the film was straightforward, one-tone and the message was almost shoved down one's throat, it struck a chord.

There is nothing like a household kitchen to demonstrate a culture's deeply ingrained patriarchal setup. I'm not talking about young millennial "house parties" or drunken gatherings at messy bachelor pads. In fact, there is a gratifyingly casual brand of self-awareness within the current young urban generations about regimented and invisible sexism; we are too busy trying to have a good time, conduct armchair debates and fit within the social-media universe to bother about trying to emulate our parents or reminisce about our childhood observations.

And in that sense, we're fortunate – given that most educated adults, punch-drunk by the responsibility of designing their families and future, still enable chauvinism as a matter of playful pride. Neeraj Ghaywan cleverly chooses one such "get-together" of married couples in his acutely observed new short, Juice. He recognizes, first and foremost, that the concept of marriage these days – especially amidst old friends we've grown up with in smaller cities – is the license to reinforce domestic cliches. Suddenly, everybody becomes their parents and uncles and aunties from a bygone era. Suddenly a partition is drawn, not unlike concentration camps, where girls are put in a dark chamber while men bond through labour. We can also see of of the ladies calls the daughter to serve the food for her brother's that's exactly what is wrong with our culture . Teaching us since childhood that girls need to serve and boys need to be served. To be very honest I could see my childhood there. 

They did a really good job at playing with the soundsfrom the very beginning, the background sound of utensils and men talking loudly . It also did a very good job in making me suffocated . In the beginning when the camera follows the ladies in the kitchen, took us from the narrow corridor to the women's world, like an air pocket in a cave. An the fact that the little boy was so confident in talking with superiority to the girl is evident of the fact that boys are trained to feel superior right from their childhood. This is the reflection of the society we live in, where the difference in the rules of girls and boys is inculcuated right from the childhood. Also women accepting and supporting the unacceptable behaviour of men boosts their unnecessary ego. 

The patriarchy and casteism is so deep rooted I our society that people don't even realize it or just don't want to admit no matter how educated and liberal they want to potray themselves.