India, June 5 -- Only last week, audiences witnessed Sacha Baron Cohen's sarcastic takedown of patriarchy in Netflix's Ladies First. The film follows a white male executive who treats the women around him like props. But when this chauvinistic, power-hungry man finds himself in an alternate world dominated by women, he is forced to experience the same sexism that he once subjected his female colleagues to. It is only when women dictate the terms to this 'dictator' that he begins to recognise his mistakes and make amends.

But the real world doesn't function like that, does it? Here, women have to fight, struggle, and sometimes even deceive or lie to survive. And in extreme circumstances, they may have to become kidnappers. In Suresh Trive...