The issue in Anubhav Sinha’s Thappad is ostensibly solvable. A well-settled housewife Amrita (Taapsee Pannu) from an upper-middleclass Delhi family takes a slap from her husband very personally. The husband is bewildered by what he sees as her overreaction.
“Ek thappad hi to tha!” Amrita’s husband Vikram keeps mumbling in rote, driving in the point of how monstrously, organically entitled men in our country have become. Driven by the dearth of reality checks, the rules that regulate and normalize male dominance have become acceptable behaviour in even the more enlightened sections of our creaky social set-up.
