Adapting an acclaimed film comes with immense responsibility. But there is another way of looking at it. Director Arati Kadav believes it can also be an opportunity to bring more lived-in experiences to the story, thus making it resonate with a wider audience. That’s the approach with which she went into Mrs, an official adaptation of the Malayalam gem, The Great Indian Kitchen (2021). “For me, storytelling has always been about capturing the raw, unfiltered experiences of people,” she starts.

A still from The Great Indian Kitchen