Shreya Controversy dress in SIVAJI Function

The Hindu Makkal Katchi on Tuesday voiced their protest against actress Shreya’s dress that she wore to the Sivaji jubilee celebrations. The party said the dress was offending for Tamils and Hindus.

The actress, not wanting to get into controversy after next like her colleague Kushboo, today tendered an apology. It’s perhaps a wise move by Shreya. This may not be a time to grow a backbone and put up a protest against the HMK. A lifetime can be spend opposing moral custodians, but nothing would be gained.

Shreya’s dress was admittedly provocative, but not more than the ones she wears in her movies thousands of Tamils and Hindus watch in their homes and in theatres. Also, it’s weird that HMK should see this as an insult only to Hindus and Tamils. Why should this not be an equal insult to Christians,

Muslims and people speaking other languages? Doesn’t the HMK see them as people?Also, in the country where issues of development need the attention of political parties and social organisations, why should a political party occupy itself solely to the job of moral policing? Here’s the Wikepedia stub on HMK. It says that the party is a split group of the much better known Hindu Munnani. Wonder what HM leader Ramagopalan would have to say about his former compatriots?Anyways, here’s a picture of the dress that made the HMK see red.The above picture shows the ‘offensive clothing’ of actress Shriya Saran in a public function held to celebrate the silver jubilee of her Thamizh film Sivaji where she acted opposite the Tamil superstar Rajnikanth. Then an organization named Hindu Makkal Katchi (HMK) said it offended the Hindu culture and they lodged a police complaint against her.

Then the political party PMK took the matter in hands and in the local assembly meeting the PMK member T Velmurugan said that the TV channels were showing her skimpy clothing, so there should be a dress code to the actors. Be glad that he didn’t ask for a ban on TV channels for this. But there seem to be some saner voice in the current ministry of Tamil Nadu.

Public Works Minister Durai Murugan responded saying: “There can’t be a yardstick to judge obscenity. We cannot say to what extent a woman should expose herself and what kind of undergarments she should wear.” “It is all in the eyes of the beholder”, added Durai Murugan. And also from Kanimozhi, poetess and daughter of Tamil Nadu chief minister Karunanidhi:
Kanimozhi, participating in a discussion at the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation in the city on the way women are depicted in the media, referred to Shriya’s case and said: “Why is it that we are objecting to women in skimpy dresses (in public) when we do not have any issues when women wear skimpy dresses or even less in films?”

That was a spot on answer to the people who have no problem in seeing the cleavage or tummy of women in masala movies and enjoy it to the every bit suddenly being insecure of the culture. But the culprits won anyway - Shriya has apologized!