ObservationsF e r r a r i on 15 Jan 2008 09:52 am
I found this post in chennai metblogs. It seems some people were offended that Shriya wore a revealing dress for the function. And hold your breath, it offended the tamil culture.
1. What is tamil culture?
2. Is it ok if the dresses are revealing in the movie? But if the same dress is worn in the public, for the awards ceremony of the same movie, it is against tamil culture?
3. If Shriyas dresses are revealing what about the costumes worn by people in that Thamizh Kolaignar TV dance program ‘Machaan mayilaada’ judged by Namitha?
4. What is Hindu Makkal Katchi? Is it run by ‘The Hindu’?
One thing is for sure. I dont know if Shriyas dress revealed anything. But the incident revealed the hypocrisy of many people 
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on 15 Jan 2008 at 11:00 am # puranjoy
Prabhu,
Aren’t you barking up the wrong tree? The point is not whether these people are justified in feeling offended; it’s that the law of the land gives them the right to. When we have nonsense laws in place, we shouldn’t begrudge people who are smart enough to spot them and exploit them for their benefit. I think HMK are not really offended here, they are using it to gain attention, popularity, and maybe some votes. Come on, give them some credit–politics is shrewd business played by shrewd people; if they were dumb, they would have gone extinct long ago.
Anyway, regarding your point no 2. I hope you put up a clarification or something, because with the kind of mindset we have, it would be very easy for someone to construe that as your endorsement of censorship in movies according to what someone might find offensive. I mean, next time HMK people would just say show us the movie prior to release and cut the scenes we find objectionable. In that scenario, your argument would be rendered invalid. Same reasoning applies to your third point as well.
on 15 Jan 2008 at 11:16 am # F e r r a r i
Err. I am not talking about censorship. I am just talking about the hypocrisy of these people. That is all.
on 15 Jan 2008 at 11:23 am # Deepak
Prabhu, full article padikkalaya?. The reason for this is not her revealing attire but…
“…The Hindu Munnani filed a case recently against her for showing disrespect to Hindu goddesses at a function in Chennai where she was photographed seated with her footwear on near some idols of the goddesses..”
on 15 Jan 2008 at 11:24 am # F e r r a r i
Deepak,
Who will protest against him and the pagutharivu friends?
Wasnt that Khushboo? And it would be ironic if someone from TN protests for showing disrespect to Hindu gods. We have a wonderful CM who is a role model in that
on 15 Jan 2008 at 12:04 pm # Karthik B.S.
Ivaala thiruthave mudiyadhu.
Then it was Gere-Shilpa, now it is this.
on 15 Jan 2008 at 12:54 pm # Deepak
Prabhu,
Rediff says it was Shriya who had her foot on the idol(s) of a Hindu Godess(es):
http://www.rediff.com/movies/2008/jan/14shriya.htm
Whats wrong in protesting such an act?
on 15 Jan 2008 at 1:07 pm # F e r r a r i
Deepak,
Read this
“Shriya is the second actor, after Khushboo, to face the ire of political parties and organisations in recent times. Khushboo had encountered protests for her reported comments on sex and virginity. The Hindu Munnani filed a case recently against her for showing disrespect to Hindu goddesses at a function in Chennai where she was photographed seated with her footwear on near some idols of the goddesses.”
on 15 Jan 2008 at 3:31 pm # Deepak
ok, i got it. I thought they had a point…:-(
on 15 Jan 2008 at 4:39 pm # Gayathri
Well, as they say, “There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.”
on 16 Jan 2008 at 1:01 am # maxdavinci
I just love that dress of hers!
My vote is for public castration of the bastards who have a prob with her, they have no better use for it anyways!
on 16 Jan 2008 at 1:07 am # manju
Here is the video of interview of Kamal, during the shooting of Virumandi. He takes a dig at the politicians who make use of tamil culture for their benefit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5uHxcSga5U
This completely suits this issue also.
And by the way, who are these HMKs ? Any idea ????
on 16 Jan 2008 at 1:22 am # manju
Am sorry, I asked you the same question No. 4, which you obviously don’t know .
on 16 Jan 2008 at 4:01 am # kajan
There are a lot of hypocritic nutcases. Can’t do nothing about it except crib. Afterall, the media is fishing for any sensation. And people are willing to feed them.
on 17 Jan 2008 at 12:02 am # madras maverick
Seriously, these people (Hindu Munnani Katchi or whatever) must get some real jobs.
And just for the record, I am not offended and my religion has nothing to do with it
on 17 Jan 2008 at 12:37 pm # Spoilt kid
“” One thing is for sure. I dont know if Shriyas dress revealed anything “”
even i am not sure..
on 18 Jan 2008 at 9:44 am # babu
i too agree with you, but you are always trying to link anything to kalignar T.V (i know the exact reason , but i don’t want to mention it here)
this particular issue is not at all connected to Kalignar T.V
this is totally unnecessary
iam following your blogs for the last one year and you are one of my favourite
so please try to avoid it
on 23 Feb 2008 at 9:15 pm # murthy
Prabhu,
One big thing in tamil culture! actual dravidian so called the original tamilians do not wear anything till their hip:) this is an proved lifestyle even in so called Sangam period, women wear only sari not more than that!
let the people who call and practice Tamil culture, need to understand this, the original dressing sense practiced.
It all depends upon the mind set!
on 03 Oct 2008 at 12:50 pm # brook
Hi I am new to this article. Please post some culture of India and Tamilnadu.
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