‘Shri Dhanya Catering Service’ movie review: A lot about Biryani

In Shree Dhanya Catering ServiceMost of the screen space is taken up by men. Still, it’s not just a film about men and their bond, or their ego-fueled brawls, though that’s what you get to see on most screens. The subtext tells something else. What lies beneath is the suppressed despair of a woman who has to seek permission from her husband to travel with her companions from the neighborhood Kudumbashree The group (which he denies), with the script it contrasts with the ease with which a young woman of the current generation sets out on a solo trip on her motorcycle.

Some parallels can be drawn from the film to director Jio Baby’s most famous work of all time, The Great Indian Kitchen, Above all is the fact that much of the film revolves around the act of cooking. Shino (Prashant Murali), a struggling catering unit owner, decides to cook biryani For the whole neighborhood on your child’s first birthday. His wife (Bina) is not too keen on the idea especially given his financial situation, but his friends are excited by the plan, thinking about the possibilities of a men’s only wine party on the night. biryani Preparation. His friend Sibi (Gio Baby), who is against his wife’s visit, immediately sends him and their teenage daughter to their ancestral home, so that she can host all the men.

As tension builds up and things start to go wrong, Xiao Baby recovers to the rhythm of a night of drunken fun, slowly bringing us in the middle of them. Some of the best excerpts are written around a man from Kozhikode who boasts about fame biryani of his native place, and his attempts to impose his methods on Shino, who is preparing it in his ‘Kottayam’ style. The entire exchange is reminiscent of the many pointless, region-based food debates in the online space, which often snowball into big fights. “Is it written in the Indian Constitution that one should make biryani Only in a specific way?” asks a frustrated Shino.

Some of the other parallel tracks, notably the local progressive “intellectual” involving Mahonathan, don’t really match up with the central theme. Although the film and title sequence focus entirely on him and his group, the film doesn’t return to them until the end, except for a few small bits in between. Looks like even the screenwriter had forgotten about the character by that time!

But, most of the time, Jio Baby lets the organic humor drive the story instead of sending the message home. At the same time the heady revelation leaves a taste for uncomfortable questions for men like Sibi.

Shree Dhanya Catering Service is currently running in theaters