Homemaker-turned-director Hena Chandran’s short film ‘Kochurani’ goes viral
The Hindu
The 13-minute Malayalam film details a young woman’s reaction to chauvinistic men in her husband’s house
In a fit of rage, the man of the house snatched the remote of the television and smashed it on the ground. Hena Chandran, who had witnessed the incident at an acquaintance’s home a decade ago, indignantly remembers how the wife quietly swept away the remains of the remote and admonished her young children for playing with the remote and irritating their father.
The homemaker turned her anger and angst at the man’s childish outburst into a short story, ‘Kochurani’, which she included in her blog 12 years ago.
In April 2021, the 46-year-old turned director with Kochurani. Uploaded on YouTube on January 19, 2022, the film has garnered 670 K views (and counting).