India, May 24 -- Ladies First puts forward this kind of high-concept fantasy thing, where this chauvinistic advertising executive gets knocked out cold, and then he wakes up in some alternate matriarchal world. And yeah, it's like, suddenly everything is reversed; women are the ones running boardrooms, sitting on real institutional power, and they even act out the same dismissive and boorish mannerisms you'd usually see tied to patriarchal behavior. Meanwhile, the men get treated like they're just props, objectified a bit and sidelined.

The idea is that it could show entrenched biases more clearly and maybe even spark real commentary, just by flipping the rules of the game.

But the actual execution doesn't quite hit the mark. Instead of...