Taramani

Stephen Hawking had once remarked that the biggest mystery for him, one that he could never solve, were women. Our cinema seems to support his statement. From the time films began to get made, filmmakers and their heroes have been trying to unravel the mystery that is the woman. "When a woman says No, does she not mean Yes?" "When a woman rebuffs your advances, is she not playing hard-to-get?"

And if she is a "modern" woman (definition: she who drinks, smokes, swears, and wears short clothes), she is even more of an enigma. "How does she expect not to be raped / groped / eve-tease....