Mannan

Vijayashanti is seen as an over-attaining industrialist on this saga. She decides to marry Rajinikanth, who performs a employee in her manufacturing facility. She chooses him as a result of, maintain your breath, he slapped her and he or she needs to get again at him! Forget about any ounce of logic right here to the wedding. A scene sees Rajinikanth slapping Vijayashanti a number of instances and telling her to maintain it to herself since she’d be embarrassed if this got here out within the open.

Forget about the truth that a prime industrialist or any lady for that matter can method the cops to settle a case of bodily violence. The finish of the film exhibits the as soon as prime-rated industrialist resigned to the kitchen whereas the person goes off to work! The director cannot even present them each working the corporate collectively! Even although the film launched within the early ‘90s, it took us again a number of a long time, one should say.

Singaravelan

Singaravelan

The whole film revolves round an obsessed Kamal Haasan stalking, groping and whatnot an unwilling Khushboo (who’s his cousin) and we’re pressured to purchase this within the type of unconditional love! It was a well-recognized trope the flicks of the ‘90s adopted – man falls in love, lady rebuffs, man’s mates and he make use of each trick within the e book to get her to love him, whether or not or not it concerned consent.

An vital block that these masala movies employed was capturing the second 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 all of the sudden, she’s head over heels in love with him. Slowcaps!!!

Padayappa

Padayappa

This film might effectively be hailed because the king of misogynistic movies of Tamil cinema! Rajinikanth spouts a prolonged dialogue through which he says a lady ought to be smooth, gentle-mannered and never like a baajari (an uncouth time period for a lady who’s aggressive). For good measure, he even provides lady being a lady is sweet for her and everybody round her.

Puthiya Pathai

Puthiya Pathai

The film, that means ‘a brand new path’, actually introduced into focus a maverick filmmaker referred to as R Parthiban. But simply the premise of the film is sufficient to make you go WTF!!! It was a couple of rape sufferer marrying her rapist and altering him for the higher! Do we even must say something extra in these notably irritating instances when even Me Too Movement is just not taken critically?

Sivakasi

Sivakasi

Though Vijay is likely to be a lot junior to the celebrities talked about above, sadly even his movies have not been devoid of misogynist dialogues (issues have modified for the higher with time). His movies now even extoll ladies. But reduce to instances when a scene in his movie Sivakasi has him questioning Asin as to why she’s sporting a bra (surely, it is a sleeveless prime) and undergarments (it is shorts within the precise 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 one other scene, he forces her to say ‘I really like you’, which she reluctantly says. But what follows is a smile and a tune!