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Amongst everything else, Stree Gets feminism right. Here's Why?

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Despite rampant enabling measures targeted at women empowerment, the world’s population is continually bifurcated into “fairer sex” and the “weaker sex”. A plethora of women having endured innumerable instances of sustained societal and institutional oppression are profusely desirous of attaining the “privilege” that comes with being born as a man.                                                           Stree transposes you to a hypothetical world, where men for an episodic phase are not only envious of the opposite sex but also rely on them, seeking protection. A particular scene in the film incorporates the helplessness of a man earnestly pleading his wife to return early for he fears staying alone at home. Drawing its premise from tales of horror running across streets of small towns, the narrative craftly endeavors to address female oppression and gender in-equality sinuously ingrained in the Indian Society. Rajkumar Rao, the self-proclaimed Manish Malhotra of Chan