Cast & Crew
Director : Arati Kadav
Producers : Harman Baweja, Pammi Baweja, Smitha Baliga, Abdul Aziz Makani, Jyoti Deshpande
- Sanya Malhotra as Richa Sharma
- Nishant Dahiya as Diwakar Kumar
- Kanwaljit Singh as Ashwin Kumar, Diwakar’s father
- Aparna Ghoshal as Meena Kumar, Diwakar’s mother
- Nitya Moyal as Saavi
- Viraj Mundkar as Vedprakash
- Varun Badola as Tunnu Bhaiya
- Loveleen Mishra as Nirjala, Diwakar’s aunt
- Harshika Kewalramani as Bubbles
- Mrinal Kulkarni as Richa’s mother
- Girish Dhamija as Richa’s father
- Gulsita as Saavi’s mother
- Aaryan Arora as Richa’s brother
Story
The movie MRS is the story of Richa, a young passionate woman who loves dancing. Her dream is to make it her career, but her family has other plans. They want her to get married and settle down . Soon, she meets Diwakar, a well-mannered gynecologist by profession. They meet, and Richa finds him polite and understanding. They agreed to marry each other, and before long, she was married.
After their marriage, Richa steps into her new home with high hopes, but reality is far from what she imagined. Her mother-in-law spends her days in the kitchen, doing all the housework while the men relax and do nothing. Richa notices that modern kitchen appliances like mixers and dishwashers are not allowed because her father-in-law insists that food tastes better when prepared the traditional way. The house follows strict traditions that seem unfair to women.
Richa expects love and companionship in her relationship, but her wedding night was a disappointment. Instead of romance, Diwakar treats intimacy as a only duty. She ignores it, assuming things will improve over time.
The next morning, when Richa goes to the kitchen to help, Diwakar asks her to pick up his clothes about which she felt strange. She was shocked to see that he wouldn’t even do such simple things for himself. Later, at breakfast, she observes another biased custom, the men are served fresh, hot food while the women eat later, often whatever is leftover.
Soon, Richa’s mother-in-law had to go to her pregnant daughter to take care of her, and the entire responsibility of the household fell on Richa’s shoulders. Richa’s struggle started as She used to cook with modern appliances, but here, she has to do everything manually in the old traditional style. One morning for breakfast she makes chutney using a mixer grinder, only to have her father-in-law reject it. Another day, she prepares biryani in a cooker, but they dismiss it saying it is not biryani but pulao. Even Diwakar gets angry at her when she fails to send his lunch on time.
Soon, Richa’s mother-in-law had to go to her pregnant daughter to take care of her, and the entire responsibility of the household fell on Richa’s shoulders. Richa’s struggle started as She used to cook with modern appliances, but here, she has to do everything manually in the old traditional style. One morning for breakfast she makes chutney using a mixer grinder, only to have her father-in-law reject it. Another day, she prepares biryani in a cooker, but they dismiss it saying it is not biryani but pulao. Even Diwakar gets angry at her when she fails to send his lunch on time.
Slowly, Richa’ frustration creeps in. She begins to feel like a maid in her own home. She missed her old dancing days. Dancing was the one thing that brought her happiness. When she got her period, she was not allowed to enter the kitchen as her family was an orthodox. With nothing else to do, she starts watching her old dance videos and is reminded of how much she loved it. Richa decides to apply for a job as a dance teacher.
However, when she shared her aspirations with her husband, he immediately dismissed it. Her father-in-law tells her that there’s no point in taking a new job as she will get pregnant soon and will have to quit anyway. Her dreams gets crushed before she even gets the chance to pursue them.
As days pass, Richa faces new restrictions everyday. One day the kitchen sink starts leaking, and Richa asks Diwakar to call a plumber repeatedly, but he ignores her and doesn’t bother much. She was expected to wash clothes by hand because her father-in-law believes that machine-washed clothes aren’t clean enough. Richa’s frustration reached its peak and she could no longer tolerate them, but there was no space for her voice in this house.
One night, Richa finally confronts Diwakar and asks him why he never treats her with love, why he treats her as nothing more than a maid. His response was cruel. Diwakar accused richa of knowing too much about romance and intimacy hinting at something inappropriate about her past. Then he insults her by saying she smells like the kitchen. His words hit her hard.
Things continue to spiral up when Diwakar’s cousin visits them, he too expects to be served like king. When Richa cooks for him, he criticizes the food and demands a new dish. Though exhausted, Richa prepares another meal, but her patience wears thin.
On the day of Karva Chauth Richa observes the fast. Even while she fast, she cooks and serves everyone. When she gave medicine to diwakar’s aunt, she scolded her and said “modern girls, they say, have no patience”. The words make her angry, but she swallows her anger.
Then comes the meltdown. Diwakar tells Richa to delete all her dancing videos. He wants to erase the last remaining piece of her identity. Richa refuses to do so. Diwakar threatens her, but this time, Richa was not going to back down.
On the day of her father-in-law’s birthday the house was filled with guests. As expected Richa was to serve them, and once again she was treated like a maid. But this time, Richa makes a choice of her own quiet rebellion. She collects dirty water from the leaking sink and serves them.
On Knowing this Diwakar gets furious. He storms into the kitchen, to confront richa. But Richa, not going to back down this time, throws the water in his face and walks out.
Richa returns to her mother’s house, expecting support from her parents, but her mother tells her to apologize to Diwakar and return. But Richa knows this wasn’t a small fight. This was about her self-respect. She refused to go back.
Diwakar moves on in life quickly, and marries another woman, but nothing changes in his house. Diwakar’s new wife faces the same fate.
Richa starts over in life. She rebuilds her dance group and embraces the life she always wanted to live. For the first time in life, she felt free.
This movie does not end with a marriage being saved. It ends with a woman saving herself.
