{"id":1039,"date":"2008-05-06T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T06:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/archives\/1039"},"modified":"2008-05-06T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T06:42:00","slug":"here-we-go-again-chennai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/here-we-go-again-chennai\/","title":{"rendered":"Here we go again Chennai!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This time is it is the outfit that Mallika Sherawat wore<\/a> during the release of Dasavatharam’s music. It seems some self-proclaimed guardians of the so called Tamil culture tried lodging a complaint against Mallika. But the cops refused to accept the complaint saying it is impossible to enforce a dress-code. Oh really? Ask the students of Anna University sirs<\/a>. Also see the FrontLine piece<\/a>. Scary! <\/p>\n

Now the cynic in me tells me that the cops are doing this because the Chief Minister too shared the stage with Mallika. <\/p>\n

Let us, for a moment, think that the guardians of Tamil morality are right… then, they need to burn all the weekly Tamil magazines. I kid you not, but every magazine that’s worth its name carries pictures of skimpily clad actors. Every week! <\/p>\n

Strange but these guardians of morality do not seem to have a problem with actors baring skin in Tamil movies (which are very high on Tamil culture). Why are we being such hypocrites!<\/p>\n

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This time is it is the outfit that Mallika Sherawat wore during the release of Dasavatharam’s music. It seems some self-proclaimed guardians of the so called Tamil culture tried lodging a complaint against Mallika. But the cops refused to accept the complaint saying it is impossible to enforce a dress-code. Oh really? 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