Natkhat (2020)

Sonu is seven; the age at which children start following role models and belief systems, they learn and imitate things from their immediate environment, and in the largely patriarchal societies of India, it's also the age at which machismo starts getting celebrated. One evening over dinner, Sonu casually mentions to his family about a ghastly act that he committed in school: a result of the firmly ingrained forces of social conditioning that define a predominantly masculine society. Determined to correct his course, his doting mother Surekha decides that she will not let Sonu go down the same path as the other men in the family. Through her bedtime stories and Sonu's love for Surekha, she teaches Sonu the true virtue of equality: that between a boy and a girl, between a human and an animal, among all creations of God.