#BingeRewind: Content in 2025 where it was all ‘her’ fault when it really wasn’t!

2025 brought us some solid stories surrounding some really strong women and how easily society blames them for everything, when it really isn’t their fault!

In 2025, the content we saw fed us a lie we are rather familiar with - ‘she was the problem’. From the moms in All Her Fault, the obsessive mother in The Girlfriend  to the crazy ex-wife in Haq and the newly wed bahu who won’t obey in Mrs., these stories arrived pre-packaged with an arc we have seen many times before - the unhinged woman, unstable wife and the obsessive lover. But what makes these stories stand out is the fact that they subtly flipped these long standing tropes on their heads! 

These stories linger in the discomfort, tracing how emotional neglect, manipulation, silence and entitlement from the men around them slowly shape these women’s breaking points and make for a gripping plot twist! What initially makes you think that ‘she’s losing it’, gradually reveals a more unsettling truth which is the fact that this is what prolonged dismissal, gaslighting, and power imbalance look like inside a home. This rewind looks at how these stories resist easy blame, using female struggle not as spectacle, but as evidence of how women are pushed to the edge and how the real fault lines run through the men who made that edge inevitable!

Also Read: 2025: The year that brought back men who yearn!

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Mrs - Zee5

Starring Sanya Malhotra, Mrs turned out to be every woman’s nightmare being played out in front of them. Mrs isn’t your typical saas-bahu clashing story. It is in fact the silences that haunt you. When Richa merges herself into her husband’s routine, she loses a piece of herself day by day and that is heart breaking to watch. From her passion for dance being suppressed, to making her feel like a house help more than an equal member of the family becomes the reason for her breaking point in the film. After months of suppression, when she finally acts out is when she is looked at as a rebel or a crazy woman who misbehaves and does not respect her in-laws, when in reality it is the men in her house who drove her to that madness. 

Haq - on Netflix next month

Shazia Bano’s story is as bizarre as it could get and fully justified the outrage it caused in her heart. After learning that her husband has married another woman, Shazia is expected to accept this as her new normal and live with another woman. After a year of adjusting when she is sidelined as the other woman instead, she decides to stand up for herself. What should have been seen as the right thing to do, was seen as ‘acting out’ or overreacting to something that isn’t a big deal. Whereas her husband conveniently used religion to escape accountability of her and her children and no one bats an eye against him or his arrogance.

All Her Fault - JioHotstar

The heart breaking arc of the mothers in All Her Fault is a much needed reminder that it is indeed the moms holding it all together. The show does a great job at showing how mothers become the default parent while the fathers do the back seat driving and guilt trip their partners for the smallest mistake. When in reality their concept of ‘me-time’ looks poles apart from one another!

Wicked: For Good - In theatres 

Elphaba was titled the ‘wicked witch’ by all of Oz, when all she ever did was stand up against the Wizard and his lies. She was driven away from her home, hunted and painted as the villain in society, all for a man with a selfish propaganda!

The Girlfriend - Prime Video

The Girlfriend had an over protective mother and a crazy girlfriend pitted against each other for the love of a man. The mother wanted the love and safety of her son and the girlfriend wanted her man’s undivided attention. While both of these women were severely flawed in their own ways, what the story also asks us to notice as viewers is that Daniel constantly needs to be coddled by either of these women. He always has this need to be taken care of and be the center of attention, contrary to what people might say about his girlfriend!

Maybe these stories in 2025 come as reminders to take a step back and introspect before we easily blame women for everything that goes wrong around us!

This article is a part of our #LetsKetchup series that sums up the year from our perspective!

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