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Film has changed history repeatedly. The best films encourage us to think about how we can improve our lives and society. Movies have always been an effective way to reflect the world around us. A meaning cannot be communicated without language, if one cannot express it in a language that other people can understand. The existence of new views that produce new meanings, is also the result of the growth of the construction of human thought, through the representation of meaning produced and constructed. Semiotic analysis is one such method to analyze the movies. semiotic theories take signs or sign systems as their object of study; applied semiotics analyzes cultures and cultural artifacts according to the ways they construct meaning through their being signs. This research uses qualitative methodology to semiotically analyze the movie Great Indian Kitchen using Roland Barthe's code. Using signifiers, signified, connotative sign, denotative sign, pragmatics, syntax this study analyzes the representation of men and women in the movie. The study clearly points out the differences in the way a typical pious family treats a man and woman in the family. The way the protagonist gets treated in the movie is semiotically represented at various point of time. These semiotic details when related with the dialogs in the movie delivers a subtle meaning but a strong message to the audience. The study has analyzed the intricate details represented between shots and has given evidence on the semiotic details detailed in the movie The Great Indian Kitchen.