Thus, every leading hero was shown with the booze bottle or a cigarette in some sequences, even as heroes.ĭown the years, there have been too many such film characters that routinely consumed liquor on screen, either to drown their worries or to acquire enough courage to do things they would otherwise abstain from when sober! Audience took no serious objection to this. So this trend clearly established less demarcation between good and bad screen characters. They did not bother whether the script overtly needed such scenes or not! It just started looking okay to drink on screen.
And soon, the acceptance levels of a drinking and smoking hero drastically went up. Almost all the heroes had played such roles in our films.īut as the society outgrew the old morals & gradually shed its taboo against drinking & smoking, such urbane ideas slowly seeped into films too. The hero visiting a ‘club’ or the sinister looking villains in his den with his female sidekicks – took to drinks.
In earlier cinemas, the drunk hero was afforded ample opportunities in displaying various emotions and were designed to draw audience empathy to him, despite his drinking habit, as the script embedded logic in the story, to justify their intoxication. ‘Padikkathavan’ (1985) too had the character played by Rajnikant often visiting liquor shop, reeling out empathy seeking songs like ‘Oorai therinju kitten’
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Sivakumar, in the role of an upright classical musician turned alcoholic in the cult movie Sindhu Bhairavi (1985) had this song, ‘Thanni thotti thedi vantha’ rendered by Yesudas, depicting how a person degenerates as an addict. In contrast to all the above characters, he advocated prohibition in Unnal Mudiyum Thambi (1988). Working Still from the Film SAKALAKALA VALLAVAN for the song ELAMAI IDHO IDHO PC: From the archives of TCRC Of course, the song had some deep meaning lines. It featured ‘Poochie’, a habitual wife beating drunkard village toughie played by R.S.Manohar & his screen wife played by B.S.Saroja. Modern Theater’s Vanna Kili (1959) had a very popular song sequence ‘Adikkira kai thaan anaikkum’ (voices: Tiruchi Loganathan & P.Susheela), excellently picturised by Director T.R.Ragunath. ‘Kalathur Kannamma’ (1959), produced by AVM, had a song ‘Arugil vanthaal’ in the voice of A.M.Raja as Gemini Ganesan, enacted as a drunken man post his skirmishes with her lady love. This was one of the early Tamil films where alcoholic hero was perhaps prominently featured. ‘Devadas’ (1953) had a subject of the Hero taking heavily to drinking alcohol after his ex-love deserts him owing to certain circumstances. Most of our cine heroes have had to grab a bottle on screen before the whirring camera, on some pretext or other, dependent upon the script and the director.īut in earlier films such characters were far too few when compared to the intoxicated characters in later movies. Thus Tamil cinemas have had their heroes drinking like a fish – owing to the character’s trouble ridden life – in typical situations such as love failure, encountering bad economic situations and so on. Our films too routinely deal with story subjects involving alcohol, with a message in some. Therefore, the society is by and large shy of acknowledging drinking, even as people go unabated in taking to drinks. Alcoholism, in short, implies alcohol abuse having to do with mental or physical health problems. But when a person drinks considerably over a long time period & has difficulty cutting down, such condition could result in shirking from responsibilities, social problems, health issues & risky situations. The human society has inherited drinking from time immemorial.
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