You can classify the roles women actors get in Tamil movies in a fairly simple way. They are either mothers or sisters or vamps or lovers.
Nothing can glorify a mother, like Tamil movies. There is so much of sentiment that is displayed that it is nauseating. They are the embodiment of all good virtues and gets treated badly in the climax to get the hero realize his courage, stand up and fight. All of them I suspect will be paid some 100 litres of glycerine as salary. Because they cry, cry and cry and make the whole cinema hall slippery and wet. They will love their sons so very much and invariably get a bad husband as a deal. It’s like saying ‘ You want a good son, then you can’t choose having a good husband too’. They need not worry too much about it, because the sons anyway carry them, bathe them, feed them food and cry with them, when the going gets tough. This is irrespective of the fact of whether they are rich or poor. The most died character in movies and provide tremendous scope for the sick & graphic scene of cremation.
Sisters are the next. If there was one hero who doesn’t love his sister, then he is a Martian or something like that. Their primary KRA is to get molested by the villain, secondary KRA is falling in love with a bad guy. The second gives tremendous scope for the hero to display his sacrificing abilities, as he will fall at the feet of the bad guy and suffer indescribable insults to demonstrate his love for the sister. The sisters can also sometimes be helpful in having friends who can be loved by their brothers. Sometimes they may die for the cause of the storyline including some gory fights. They are banned from wearing sexy clothes and mostly will be seen in a half-saree.
Lovers are the worst. Atleast the sisters & mothers can pretend to have a useful role. They may contribute to the movie’s progress, by crying, dying, getting raped etc. But this lover character is the ultimate. Invariably she will be a rich & arrogant girl who gets humbled by a 3rd standard dropout of a hero. The guy would have nothing to charm her, but she still would be charmed. Will get some scope for flying out to exotic locales and do some jigs in stupid Indian costumes in a very cold Scandinavian country. They will be an epitome of vulgarity and they get handsomely paid just because they do some intimate scenes with a stinking hero. I think a percentage of their earnings will go into makeup stuff for their public appearances. Couple of times I have seen a few of them without makeup and my kids were mighty scared.
My choice always is the vamps. Invariably they are most good-looking, sexy and they carry some attitude. They care a damn about guys, and treat them like a piece of dirt. Some of them screw this up, by turning good gals in the end. But most don’t. They stick to their bad virtues, have a super cool time, don’t get raped, don’t dance around trees like monkeys, wear awesome costumes and freak out totally.
There are rare, very rare exceptions where women will be something in Tamil movies, but even in that they will somehow contrive to find a guy with better virtues.
So my toast for the ‘Women’s Day’ is for all the vamps, in and out of the silver screen.
Nothing can glorify a mother, like Tamil movies. There is so much of sentiment that is displayed that it is nauseating. They are the embodiment of all good virtues and gets treated badly in the climax to get the hero realize his courage, stand up and fight. All of them I suspect will be paid some 100 litres of glycerine as salary. Because they cry, cry and cry and make the whole cinema hall slippery and wet. They will love their sons so very much and invariably get a bad husband as a deal. It’s like saying ‘ You want a good son, then you can’t choose having a good husband too’. They need not worry too much about it, because the sons anyway carry them, bathe them, feed them food and cry with them, when the going gets tough. This is irrespective of the fact of whether they are rich or poor. The most died character in movies and provide tremendous scope for the sick & graphic scene of cremation.
Sisters are the next. If there was one hero who doesn’t love his sister, then he is a Martian or something like that. Their primary KRA is to get molested by the villain, secondary KRA is falling in love with a bad guy. The second gives tremendous scope for the hero to display his sacrificing abilities, as he will fall at the feet of the bad guy and suffer indescribable insults to demonstrate his love for the sister. The sisters can also sometimes be helpful in having friends who can be loved by their brothers. Sometimes they may die for the cause of the storyline including some gory fights. They are banned from wearing sexy clothes and mostly will be seen in a half-saree.
Lovers are the worst. Atleast the sisters & mothers can pretend to have a useful role. They may contribute to the movie’s progress, by crying, dying, getting raped etc. But this lover character is the ultimate. Invariably she will be a rich & arrogant girl who gets humbled by a 3rd standard dropout of a hero. The guy would have nothing to charm her, but she still would be charmed. Will get some scope for flying out to exotic locales and do some jigs in stupid Indian costumes in a very cold Scandinavian country. They will be an epitome of vulgarity and they get handsomely paid just because they do some intimate scenes with a stinking hero. I think a percentage of their earnings will go into makeup stuff for their public appearances. Couple of times I have seen a few of them without makeup and my kids were mighty scared.
My choice always is the vamps. Invariably they are most good-looking, sexy and they carry some attitude. They care a damn about guys, and treat them like a piece of dirt. Some of them screw this up, by turning good gals in the end. But most don’t. They stick to their bad virtues, have a super cool time, don’t get raped, don’t dance around trees like monkeys, wear awesome costumes and freak out totally.
There are rare, very rare exceptions where women will be something in Tamil movies, but even in that they will somehow contrive to find a guy with better virtues.
So my toast for the ‘Women’s Day’ is for all the vamps, in and out of the silver screen.
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