to be married.ДЇor most of the film, Anita and PreetamвЂ™s love story runs through a вЂwill-they-wonвЂ™t-theyвЂ™ arc as she is torn between the world of her aunt, who promises to be. Written by Abrar Alvi, the film forces audiences to believe that a womanвЂ™s virtue lies in taking care of the household and obeying her husband, and nothing else would give her the вЂsukhвЂ™ of her husband. Mr and Mrs 55 is presented as a romantic comedy where Seeta Devi is the vamp of their love story when all she wants is for women not to be submissive to men. Preetam also receives a monthly stipend to stay married to Anita, but in the midst of all the chaos they fall in love and of course Preetam refuses a divorce.

Seeta Devi unanimously decides to marry Anita to Preetam (Guru Dutt), an unemployed cartoonist, but on the condition that he divorce her when she asks. But Anita is a traditionalist who falls in love in the blink of an eye and doesnвЂ™t care about her great fortune.ДЄnita is torn between her auntвЂ™s feminist ideals and societyвЂ™s demands to be a housewife. She believes that with Anita becoming heiress, there is no longer any need to depend on a man to live, as she can truly live as she wishes. Her aunt Seeta Devi (Lalita Pawar), who fights for womenвЂ™s rights, calls the arrangement crazy. The film opens with Anita de Madhubala who has acquired a huge fortune but will only have access to that money if she gets married next month.

Starring Madhubala, Guru Dutt and Lalita Pawar in key roles, DuttвЂ™s 1955 film portrays feminism as the curse of the Western world that corrupts the minds of women and distracts them from their вЂњdutyвЂќ to serve their husbands and to make babies. While Amy knew that embracing a married life was her only choice, Anita de Madhubala in Mr and Mrs 55 simply wishes to get married and be a вЂgrahiniвЂ™ because thatвЂ™s what a вЂadarsh вЂ‹вЂ‹bhartiya naariвЂ™ is supposed to do, even when shown a better way. Their society did not allow them to have the agency of their life and therefore being married was their only option. When Amy March in Greta GerwigвЂ™s Little Women talks about marriage as an economic proposition, you realize why women in those days had to marry wealthy men.

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