Feminist divorce lawyer Sunanda Raut (Usha Jadhav) helps victims of rape, domestic abuse, and mental illness emerge out of bad marriages, all while dealing with her own traumas. It is Netflix's first original Marathi-language film.
Firebrand Movie Cast, Release Date, Trailer, Songs and Ratings
In the late eighties, while navigating her divorce with her fellow filmmaker husband, writer-director Aruna Raje delivered Rihaee — starring Hema Malini and Vinod Khanna — a subversive film that unapologetically explored the sexual needs and frustrations of married women in rural corners of India. It was proudly feminist and hence truly ahead of its time. Three decades later, Raje is revisiting some of those ideas in a different world with Firebrand — Netflix's first original Marathi film, produced by Priyanka Chopra, out now — which follows a divorce lawyer called Sunanda Raut (Usha Jadhav, from Dhag) and is cloaked under a narrative that tackles relevant subject matter: sexual assault and domestic abuse.