Mannan
Vijayashanti
is
seen
as
an
over-achieving
industrialist
in
this
saga.
She
decides
to
marry
Rajinikanth, who
plays a
worker
in
her
factory. She
chooses
him because,
hold
your
breath,
he
slapped
her
and
she
wants
to
get
back
at
him!
Forget
about
any
ounce
of
logic
here to
the
marriage.
A
scene
sees
Rajinikanth
slapping
Vijayashanti
several
times
and
telling
her
to
keep
it
to
herself
since
she'd
be
embarrassed
if
this
came
out
in
the
open.
Forget
about
the
fact
that
a
top
industrialist
or
any
woman
for
that
matter
can
approach
the
cops
to
settle
a
case
of
physical
violence.
The
end of
the
movie shows
the
once
top-rated
industrialist
resigned
to
the
kitchen
while
the
man
goes
off
to
work!
The
director
can't
even
show
them
both
running
the
company
together!
Even
though
the
movie
released
in
the
early
‘90s,
it
took
us
back
several
decades,
one
must
say.
Singaravelan
The
entire
movie
revolves
around
an
obsessed
Kamal
Haasan
stalking,
groping
and
whatnot
an
unwilling
Khushboo (who
is
his
cousin) and
we
are
forced
to
buy
this
in
the
form
of
unconditional
love!
It
was
a
familiar
trope
the
movies
of
the
‘90s
followed
-
guy
falls
in
love,
girl
rebuffs, guy's friends and
he employ
every
trick
in
the
book
to
get
her
to
like
him,
whether
or
not
it
involved consent.
An
important
block
that
these masala films
employed
was
capturing
the
moment
when
the
reluctant
heroine
falls
in
love
with
our
hero.
In Singaravelan,
it
was
when
Kamal
Haasan
asks,
"Does
she
know
to
wear
a
saree?
Does
she
know
to
keep
a bindi?
Does
she
keep
jasmine
flowers
in
her
head?
Does
she
know
to
blush?" And
suddenly,
she's
head
over
heels
in
love
with
him.
Slowcaps!!!
Padayappa
This
movie
could
well
be
hailed
as
the
king
of
misogynistic
films
of
Tamil
cinema!
Rajinikanth
spouts
a
lengthy
dialogue
in
which
he
says
a
woman
should
be
soft,
mild-mannered
and
not
like
a
baajari
(an
uncouth
term
for
a
woman
who's
aggressive).
For
good
measure,
he
even
adds that a
woman
being
a
woman
is
good
for
her
and
everyone
around
her.
Puthiya
Pathai
The
movie,
meaning
‘a
new path',
literally
brought
into
focus
a
maverick
filmmaker
called
R
Parthiban. But
just
the
premise
of
the
movie
is
enough
to
make
you
go
WTF!!!
It
was
about
a
rape
victim
marrying
her
rapist
and
changing
him
for
the
better!
Do
we
even
need
to
say
anything
more
in
these
particularly
frustrating
times
when
even
Me
Too Movement is
not
taken
seriously?
Sivakasi
Though
Vijay
might
be
much
junior
to
the
stars
mentioned
above,
unfortunately
even
his
films
haven't
been
devoid
of
misogynist
dialogues (things
have
changed
for
the
better
with
time).
His
films
now
even
extoll
women.
But
cut
to
times
when
a
scene
in
his film Sivakasi
has
him
questioning Asin as
to
why
she's
sporting
a
bra
(in
actuality,
it's
a
sleeveless
top)
and
undergarments
(it's
shorts
in
the
actual
scene).
"To
you,
it's
sleeveless,
to
us
(men)
it's
a
bra.
To
you,
it's
shorts,
to
us,
it's
an
undergarment.
Learn
to
dress
like
a
woman,"
he
preaches.
In
another
scene,
he
forces
her
to
say
'I
love
you',
which
she
reluctantly
says.
But
what
follows
is
a
smile
and
a
song!