Abstract
This video essay examines how Netflix's series MAI interrogates traditional roles for married, middle-aged women in India. Focusing on the protagonist's specific life challenges, we witness how her departures from her duties as a mother, wife, and nurse coupled with her propensity for violence offer her greater agency.
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