Ibsen's "A Doll's House" & Seetharam's "Meera Madhava Raghava"

Nora, in Ibsen's iconic feminist play, is treated as a doll by her husband Torvald & not as a human being with her own personality. When she commits a questionable deed, namely forgery, to save him, he verbally disowns her. When she solves the problem on her own, he is delighted to welcome her back, not for her own self, but because she has saved his skin. Disgusted at his selfishness, she leaves his home.

Noted Kannada director T. N. Seetharam's 2007 film, loosely follows Ibsen's play, with Meera reprising Nora & Madhava reprising Torvald. Here also Meera commits forgery to help Madhava & he reacts in the same way as Torvald & threatens divorce. However, Raghava, a gangster also loves Meera, even though she marries Madhava, a bureaurocrat. Even when Meera accidentally shoots Raghava, (who is in possession of the forged letter) in the  Kannada film, he forgives her & returns the letter. Madhava, however, is delighted more with the return of the letter, than sorry for the anguish he has caused Meera. Disgusted at his selfishness, Meera leaves home, not to marry Raghava, but to live alone like Nora. 

The film, though a critical success, was not a box-office hit, may be because of audiences  not mature enough to like the ending.