‘Tulkee’: A woman’s pain is not a plot device

Sorry folks, putting a female character through the worst possible circumstances to say, ‘Oh no! Bad things happen to women,’ isn’t good storytelling.

Some movies are bad. You know, dense dialogues, flaky plot, bad acting. But they’re fun to deconstruct or hate-watch. Think ‘The Room’ or ‘Mrs Serial Killer.’ But some movies are dangerous. They’re so cruel, detached, and painful to watch that you’re left with a sense of dread—over what happens in the story, but mostly over how this particular film even made it to the screens—with so many people on board.