Khatta Meetha opens with a household the place a single mom Nargis (played by Pearl Padamsee) with three grown-up children is dealing with all of the family chores and with some cash left by her lifeless husband, she is someway making the funds work. The children are adults however don’t have any empathy for his or her mom who’s operating round from nightfall to daybreak. The different household has a single father Homi (performed by Ashok Kumar) caring for his 4 sons (whose ages vary from 20-something to 7) and is uninterested in cooking, cleansing and sustaining his job on the manufacturing unit. Nargis is advised to get married so she will have a person in the home to do the ‘man jobs’ and Homi is advised to get married so a lady can care for the family chores. This is a wedding of comfort and we’re by no means fooled into considering that this has something to do with love. Every time the household sings “Thoda Hai Thode Ki Zarurat Hai”, the movie makes itself imagine that that is the story of the frequent man who’s all the time struggling together with his means.

On the floor, Khatta Meetha may appear to be a innocent, harmless movie that’s designed to attraction to the good-heartedness of an everyday center class household. But the film casually ignores the tropes that it introduces and turns it into plot factors. Nargis’ daughter is proven to be a lady in her late 20s who has extreme physique picture points. We are advised that that is someway the trigger for her being single so the primary man who walks into her life and blatantly says that he may marry anybody, so long as it’s a lady, turns into her husband.

One of Homi’s sons, who may have a job on the manufacturing unit, chooses to sit down idle and is all the time asking his father for some cash. Another son of Nargis is a grown up and regardless of being advised that he must contribute to the family, he spends all his cash and power chasing after a lady. This causes extra hurt than good because it finally will get them thrown out of their home and will get Homi fired from his job.

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The movie makes a really clear divide between gender roles and sticks to them. At no level does a personality query why they’re clinging to the standard knowledge of the society once they, in truth, live by their very own guidelines.

Khatta Meetha has a easy facade however watching it in 2023, the movie makes it clearer that simply slapping on the tag of a household doesn’t make one’s issues disappear, regardless of how exhausting the filmmaker preaches so.