I havent been this hopping mad ever. Actually, wait, the 1st time was when I endured Chennai Express. I could NOT sit through the movie, no matter how skimpy Deepiga’s outfits where.. Yes, I know I have misspelt her name but I have done that intentionally!! Why cant I? When you can happily go about walking all over our beautiful Tamizh, I shall mess up your names! Gah..
How dare you show Dudhsagar lake and pass it off as a Village in Tamil Nadu? Call me next time you lose your way towards Tamil Nadu.
How dare you create a fake village in God knows where and make it look all cute and prim and proper and get people to assume that is how people lived..
How dare you mix up religions and create a temple with a God from a different sub case and a priest from another and assume my thatha would let that slide
How dare you show a tradition that does not even exist – guy carrying a girl up the temple and make it seem like they are the most LOVING couple!! blah..
How dare the Deepiga keep saying “Bokwas” and make it look like that is how we talk!! Hullo, come have a conversation with me- i shall dazzle you with my tamil, hindi and english..
Phew!! Just when I thought I was done picking out all the bones from this torture of a movie, there came another one… 2 States.
I am not a fan of Chetan Bhagat, he should have stopped after five point someone!! No, did he listen to us? No, he went on to do few more things with pages inbetween [ I refuse to call them books] and am sure he scribbled knowing some director somewhere will lap em up and he would go on to become the next Shakepeare!! Bleddy Hell…
So, there is this thing with pages in it called 2 states that got lapped up and made into a movie– starring the dead pan Arjun kapoor and the pretty yet dumb Alia bhatt. He is a north indian boy and she is a south indian girl. That is all.. There is nothing south indian about her or the entire set in ” so called Chennai”
What surprised me was that Ananya [ Aalia] speaks beautiful Hindi while her tamizh is very fudged up.. And she is said to have grown up in Chennai all her life.. Next time call me, I shall come tutor actors in Tamil.. Hindi too if required!
The boy lands in Chennai, they show the airport and he gets into an auto- FYI there are no autos inside the airport [get your facts straight], he then goes down the city, crossed the Chennai central [ almost telling the viewers – see how correct we are in details] and then suddenly next turn is into Pondicherry lanes [ the yellow wall and tall grey windows and narrow lanes that are so unique to Pondicherry]
The roads are filled with kolams, really? Not in the middle of the day!! And not all of us put elaborate kolams outside our home daily…
The house has a courtyard in the center and the lady of the house loves to sing.. how typical, right? Except here she is turned down by all the bhagavathars… [no explanations offered] and suddenly one day Arjun organises her show at his office function and she sings like a Nightingale!! Really?? wtf..
Again, the generalisations that Amrita Singh spews on the “Madarasis” is just so steriotypical and so 1940s!!! And we Tamilians do speak beautiful English, in case you did not know!!
Well, I can go on and on… But am tired and fed up.!! All I wanna say is = Next time you Bollywood folks decide to make a movie set in TN or if the character is a Tamilian, call me for some insights!! I promise you- the movie will fare better~
They never portray the character correctly. Also the shooting takes places somewhere else than where it is suppose to be actually portraying.
Really well-written Aarti!!!! This should be sent to SRk, Rohit Shetty, Chetan Bhagat and the Two States gumbal!!!!