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Kerala Story does the most disservice to women. Treats women reductively as just repositories of community identity. Also portrays them as helpless, having no agency. Both form Hindutva's idea of women. Only meant to imbibe and further religion, in constant need of protection!
It's in this vein that Jauhar and other brutality against women in history gets valourised on screen, as acts which dehumanise a woman leaving only her religious identity intact. Women as a rule must be very circumspect of community identities!
Patriarchy will continue to treat women as subservient to other identities and auxiliaries to institutions that constantly marginalise women, such as religion. Always remember what Pandita Ramabai said in 1907, religion cannot be your salvation! #NeverForget 
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