We examine movies which blame girls for no reason and have got away with creating a culture where women are seen as an objects rather than a living person with feeling and emotions of their own. The more and more we talk about feminism, Tamil movies have defiantly made movies which put women in bad light. Take a look at the latest string of movies which released in the past few years.
In the movie, Oru Kal Oru Kannadi (OK OK), the hero, Udhayanidhi Stalin repeatedly stalks Hansika to gain her love. The movie portrays as if the heroine is just playing hard to get and if the hero persists enough he will get her. This is where Tamil films completely ignore the concept of consent. We all must have heard the phrase, No means NO. But according to Tamil films, No means, she wants to say YES, but is lying. Also, they show Hansika as this arrogant and irritant woman for refusing the hero’s proposal. They constantly make fun of her, even harass her at her workplace and say all that is okay because the hero is doing it ‘just for fun.’ What kind of signal does this send out to the easily impressionable guys out there?
Ambikapathy (Raanjhanaa) starring Dhanush and Sonam Kapoor, saw blatant glorification of stalking. Dhanush stalks his crush Sonam Kapoor everywhere and even cuts his hand when he faces rejection from Sonam. Later he even ruins her wedding by gatecrashing it and reveals her fiance’s secret to Sonam’s family.
In the Arya and Nayanthara starrer, Boss Engira Baskaran, Arya has arrears and no job but falls in love with Nayanthara, a college professor. He follows her everywhere to make her fall in love with him, the ‘Boss.’ In this movie too the heroine is portrayed as a person who thinks too much of herself, for she did not accept the hero’s advances.
In the Vijay film Thirumalai, Jyothika wishes Vijay randomly on the road on New Years Eve. Vijay feels that she is his lucky charm and falls in love with her. He then stalks her despite her repeated warnings not to do so. The hero continues to taunt her and refers to her as a person who is ‘too proud’ until she reciprocates.
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These kind of movies are immensely popular among the B and C centers, and that is why we keep seeing such movies being made. For example, take the movie, Trisha Illana Nayanthara. The movie worked so well that GV Prakash made another movie on the same lines called, Ennaku Ennoru Per Erukku.
Lets talk about the other important factor, song lyrics; Kollywood lyrics has gone from bad to worse in the past years. We wonder why these movie makers feature songs with lyrics like:
– ‘Adida avala, odha da avala, vidra avala, thevaiye illa’ from Mayakkam Enna. We wonder how this song passed through the Censors. This song is about a man who is encouraging his friend to hit the girl who rejected him!
– Why this Kolaveri di from Three. The song popularly known as the ‘soup song’ is considered the King of all love failure songs and the boys who have their hearts rejected by girls, came to be called ‘soup boys.’
– ‘Ayyo paavam ambala, nanum solla poren endha song la. Azhagai rasipadhu than aangalin virupamada, aathai kedupadhuthan pengalin pazhakamada.’ from Vellanu Vandha Vellakaran.
– ‘Endha ponnugale epdi than purinjipochu da’ from Varuthapadatha Vallibar Sangam.
– ‘Adiye ivaley, yen vazhaka pazhakka poranthavale’ from Romeo Juliet.
– ‘Sathiyama nee ennaku thevaye illa’ from Ethirneechal.
We are not kidding, in the film Trisha Illana Nayanthra, a song called Bittu Padam Di has these lyrics.
– ‘Thaluka vandhu siluka, nee nightie ya than maatikunu, en pinju nejula mood ethure’
Bittu padam is common word for porn films and in the song, the hero is telling the heroine that she is like porn film to him.
The loud uproar over Simbu’s Beep song was because people were just fed up hearing these Tasmac songs. These so called ‘love failure’ songs where the hero is heartbroken after a fight with the heroine, goes to drink with his friends and bashes his girlfriend saying she cheated him, has become a must for every movie!
So Tamil Cinema, in these times where women empowerment and women equality is of paramount importance in India and globally, isn’t it time to stop with these senseless women bashing and degrading in movies? It is not just movie makers, even actors should take a moral responsibly and say no to such kind of movies and songs which disrespect women.
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