Why we say that?
So far it has been given to really deserving people like Late M.S.Subbulakshmi and others.Double meaning delivering artiste don,t deserve this.
News : `I want to act as hero, so that I could give useful social messages’ Actor Padmasri Vivek in Daily Thanthi of April 18, 2009.
Views : Some of his `social messages' through cinema are appended and trust he will be giving more such messages as hero: (updated Feb.18, 2010)
* Government and social organisations say HIV infected persons to be treated with compassion. But Vivek shows how people should shun a person just for posing for an HIV advertisement.
* Viverk accurately names a group of college girls standing behind him. Amazed, the friend asks him how. Vivek says the different foul smell emanating from the girls is the pointer.
* Looking at his father sleeping on the family Sofa, he asks his mother who kept the buffalo in the drawing room.
* Vivek weeps standing in a public place saying his grandma is hospitalised, and he wants to know her condition. A woman takes pity on him and gives her mobile phone to make inquiry. He speaks to the anchor of a TV show and winks in to the screen, to drive home the social message.
* He tells his father that the body odour from the father reminds him of a `rotten rat'.
* When his father tells him all unused articles like clothes, broken furniture etc to be burnt on the Bhogi day, he brings in his grand father and suggest that he too could be burnt since he was a useless article.
* He advises his mother not to eat pulses to reduce farting.
* His newly wed wife is dark in colour. So he names her `Blackie' and repeatedly hits her on the first night to teach her ex-boy friend a lesson...or the social message?.
* He praises his elder sister for her generosity, eulogieses their umblical cord relationship etc; But when the sister tells him he is a wastrel, and get away, he curses her in slum language , addressing her `Podi' (disrespecful word not used in average families -- but a good social message!).
* Vivek lies to his wife on phone that he secured a good job; the happy wife wants to celebrate it and asks him to come home with jasmine flowers. The father-in-law also wants to talk to him on phone. The moment wife says....My Appa....Vivek interrupts `you want me to bring garland for him?' (implied social message `is he dead?).
* To impress a European girl in an Indian library, he addresses the dark skinned Librarian as `Blackie' and asks him the availability of a book.
*Vivek, the film director, explains the title scene to his wife `the wife's father is sitting on a commode in the latrine. A dinoser will thrust its head through the roof, bite the head of the man on the commode and lift him high in the air so that the audience can enjoy it and read the title!
* He smells a corpse, taken aback by stench and comments it started rotting. (Incidentally defiling a dead body is a criminal offence too.His motive seems to be that family members should wrinkle their nose in disgust - whether it is frequent allusions to sex or human anatomy)
* He is dancing with a woman. Suddenly he spots a lice on her hair, grabs and crush it between his nails, and smiles in to the camera. (Suggested social messages for him - smell the mouth or ear or other parts according to his taste, of his dancing partner and crack `jokes' like he did after smelling the dead body)
* After getting his friends in to trouble with police or public, he would run away shouting `escape’.
*Social message to beggars - tap on the doors of cars waiting at signals. When the occupant opens the door to abuse, they can enjoy the cool air coming out of the car!
* He pretends to be the child of a young parents, eats away the food kept for the child and steals some money from the house which provided him food.
* He asks hot water to a slum woman who takes pity on him and provides him with ordinary water to wash off the filth and mud on his body.
* Vomit, Urine, farting and shit are his favorite `social message’ themes with special reference to genitals.
* Vivek is in Malaysia. Because he is used to the habit of defecating only in public places back home, he does it in a park in Malaysia. When caught by police, he creates tamasha by rubbing his unwashed bottom inside an airconditioned Malaysian police car!
* A pretty woman is about to eat `Paniyaram' . Vivek warns her that is she ate it, she will contract diahorrea, and something will come out `bursting through' her. Even as she contines to eat ignoring his `social message', he says he feel like vomitting on seeing the way she gobbles up `Paniyaram'.
* Vivek is sentenced to serve two weeks in a Gandhi Ashram as punishment. Explaining the Ashram routines, the elderly Gandhian tells him to get up at 4 a.m. every day. Vivek wants to know if it is to carry out `moocha' so that he will not wet the bed.
* Vivek is eating lunch with the Gandhian and others. Vivek's friend wants to skip the lunch and go out to tease girls. Vivek loudly describes the stomach upset of his friend and the possible consequence if he is allowed to remain with others. The Gandhian allows Vivek's friend to go away, but also stops eating after hearing Vivek's toilet speech.
Vivek allots parallel berths to a young man and woman in the sleeper coach of a night train.. He tutors the man how to propose his love to the woman during the night by creeping in to her bed. The man squeals in delight. Hearing the sound, Vivek wants to know if the man is suffering from `gas trouble’.
* Vivek hides himself in the toilet to escape from a visitor, stating that he suffers from diahorrea. To make it more convincing, he produces `appropriate noises' from the toilet, that reverberate throughout the house.
* Vivek is leading a blind woman across the road; he volunteers to tell her the happenings around; the very first important event is - a boy is passing stools on the road!
*A guide is taking film director Vivek and his team to show a rural location. When the vehicles reach an isolated village spot and stops, Vivek wants to know why the vehicles were stopped, and if some lady in the team wants to urinate.
* A frightened Vivek is passing urine which flows through his leg, while confronting an Andhra rowdy. But Vivek gives a good social message by pouring cold water on his head to conceal it.
* How to find out the mother-tongue of a strager? Vivek says just slap him hard on the cheek. He will cry only his mother tongue!!
* He passes urine in to an empty bottle while travelling in an open jeep and pass it on to a traffic cop who chases the jeep, to drink.
* He falls off on the road from a two wheeler, and another lady driven two wheeler rans over him.....no mark for guessing.. it ran over his anatomy below the naval and above the knee.
* A person explains to Vivek that the `Nattama' has a feminine voice after a spherical tumor was removed from the lower part of his stomach. Vivek wants to know only one `ball or two balls were removed"
* A police inspector shoots him from the rear, and blood spurts from the center of both his buttocks, turning his white dhoti in to red. Showing this social message in close up, he asks the inspector why he could not shoot forest brigand Veerappan like that.
* He causes a man, afflicted with piles to be dragged on the road, suspended from a cross bar, making the buttocks to hit the road. Then the `social message' is given by showing the blood oozing buttocks in close up on screen.
* On talking to a group of rowdies in a provocative language, Vivek gets beaten up by them; Vivek is worried that he would get afflicted with piles following the beating.
* He creates tamasha by drimking coco cola from a cricket loin guard and writhes in pain when the cricket ball hits...you know where!
* He punishes a rapist by shooting at his crotch; but the `social message' is not effective since the bleeding organ is not shown in close up, as he usually does.
* He looks at an elderly servant woman talking to a CBI Officer and quips that `a bad smell is coming from a particular part of her body'.
*He throws knife at an enemy, but misses target and hits a middle aged sweeper women - yes. you guessed it right...at the fleshy higher end of her leg.
* At a party, he vomits all over his shirt, shows it on close up for the `social benefit' and then wipes the vomit with his neck-tie `joking' that his shirt comes with an attached napkin!
* He is about to eat a `Pizza', and gives the social messages to his fellow diners that the first letter of the item reminds him something in Tamil. (Usually, people pray before eating their food, but no social message in it)
* To impress a group of women, he tells a Safaiwallah in a loud voice that if all of them did not use the toilet regularly, the Safaiwallah will lose his job!
* A group of youngsters are on picnic and a girl request the driver Vivek to stop. He wants to know if the girl wanted to urinate.
* Vivek is a holy person and a male devotee asks for blessing. A jet of water goes towards him and the devotee says it tastes saltish. Vivek discloses the social messasge. It is his urine!
* He pretends to vomit in to the dining table of posh restaurants so that the customer will move away and he could sit here.*
*Vivek wants window seat in a packed running running train. He pretends to be chronic pan chewer and scares the occupant by directing the betel juice spit on him.
* He eats with friends in a posh restaurant. When the bills comes, he takes out a visiting card, keeps it inside the bill folder, saying it is a credit card. While the bearer goes to the cashier, all the friends run away laughing and shouting `escape' (nice social message)
* He asks a man, enjoying food in a roadside teashop as to why he chose to eat the food in which a cocoroach had fallen, making him thow up in the hotel. (Some one can try this social message during wedding lunch or at birthday parties given by film stars)
* He froths in the mouth while pulling a loaded cart, and describes the froth as `Lassi'. An elementary lesson we were taught was never equate food (a God's gift) with anything revolting. May be it is ok in the name of social message.
* Consquent upon the deep injury caused to a temple priest
by Vivek, blood is gushing out of his bald head. Vivek escapes
shouting `The bun is damaged and red jam is coming out'.
Suggested social message to Padmashri Vivek from the reader :
when you find an accident victim with his brain out of the skull,
you can escape shouting `bun is damaged and the butter and jam out'.
* He spits into his hands and dishevels his friends hair to make him unattractive to a young woman
If his intention is to correct society with such presentations, he could give more powerful messages by showing a teenager raping a much younger girl, incest, perverted relationships etc. If the viewer wrinkles his nose, the message has reached the target.
(to be updated as and when readers send us fresh similar social messages)
Question : Why do you pick on Vivek? Other comediens do and speak much worse things on screen.
Answer : Yes. They do. But they are not Padmashrees and have no intellectual pretensions.
- Indian Writer.
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