The last time someone suggested Vetrimaaran. Vetrimaaran is the pride of Indian Cinema, worked wonders as a producer, director, and screenwriter. With 5 National awards, he is not just popular among Tamil audiences. He is appreciated by PAN Indian audiences and movie enthusiasts across the world. Most of his works are absolute gems but which do you think is the best work of the master director VetrimaaranAadukalamKaaka Muttai (Producer)Asuran

NOTE : This post is taken from a reply I made to a thread on another post. Found it long and comprehensive enough to be standalone.

BIG DISCLAIMER (CAUSE PEOPLE ARE PISSED) : This post is extremely biased. I am from Kerala and my knowledge of the other industries (excluding Tamil) is limited to recent commercially successful movies that I've watched. I believe these movies do constitute the industry's image and this is why I have included them. It is my section on Malayalam cinema which is most accurate. Yet, when it do comes to the other ones, this post is better knowledge than nothing.

Question, what is 'South Indian Cinema'? Madrasi? Telugu? No logic? Anti-gravity? Objectification of women? If you said 'yes' to any of these, either you are extremely influenced by stereotypes pushed by Bollywood/Media/Society or you're just watching the wrong movie. I'm a South Indian film buff (not just another film buff, like... FILM BUFF), and I must say, I have yet to encounter such a wild, and uncivilized piece of cinema as to be showcasing such devoidness of at least film-logic (logic MUST be bent to a certain extent for cinema to work) and physics. Any ones that do showcase such bending of physics and logic are either fantasy or hard sci-fi (and when I said 'fantasy' and 'sci-fi' if the thought that 'sci-fi? South india? wtf?' came across your mind, consider this not just an invitation to read the post, but a reminder to consider the rest 'essential education')

NOTE 2 : I am South Indian, I eat Idlis and Sambar, I wear pieces of cloth that resemble skirts, I am dark, and yes, I am from a place known in antiquity as 'The Madras Presidency'. Yeh, all of that shit - So, I maybe a tad bit biased, do excuse... :)

What follows is a concise introduction to South Indian cinema (excluding 70% of films made between 2000 and 2010, when the worst B-grade movies started to get dubbed into Hindi and other languages, and became the decade that stamped South Indian cinema as 'Illogical'. Sadly no one seems to know a dime about South Indian cinema pre-2000 or post-2010). Hope you'll enjoy it.

BIGGER DISLAIMER : This post consists of the best aspects of each industry. I've watched plenty of trashy Telugu and Kannada movies, but it's the good ones that I have written about here. Also, my knowledge on the pre-2000 phase of these industries are very limited. Sahikkanam, ketto...

Telugu - Commercial entertainers, focused on actors portrayed as 'idealistic' an

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Bondhas, mee combinations cheppandi. Nen anukunnavi Ex. kindha raasaa:

1. Director - Actor/Actress

Meeru ae director-actor/actress kalisi movie chesthe choodaali anukuntunnaaru?

Ex:

Tharun Bhascker - Ravi Teja

RGV - Samantha

2. Director - Genre

Ee director ee genre cheyali anipinchina combo?

Ex:

Rajamouli - Heist, Horror

Trivikram - Crime comedy, dark comedy

Boyapati - stop making movies

3. Actor - Role/Genre

Ee actor ee genre cheyali anipinchinadhi?

Ex:

Mahesh - Proper antagonist, Comedy subgenres, Period/historic drama

NTR - Sports, Martial arts

Allu Arjun - Sports, Martial arts

Chiranjeevi - Gangster

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

Mathematical puns makes me number

They were cooked in Greece.

This is a trend that's been going on since the 90s; the Tamil movie industry has been importing heroines from the North and Kerala/Karnataka and fetishizing them to the point where it's very creepy & unacceptable!

Take every heroine from early 2000s and make a list of how many of them are Tamil & Non-Tamils; hardly 5-10 of them must be Tamil/ partially Tamil. But take Heroes, 80-90% of them must be Tamil/partially Tamil.

Most of these heroines have to be white skinned, with eurocentric features, be scantily clad and run behind the hero and fall for him even if the hero barely looks attractive. They have at least one item dance, most of the times they are dumb and are an accessory to the hero and an eye candy to the audience. They literally contribute nothing to the movie or the plot.

This happens even now, so many movies where women have literally no role to play. In every A-Listers movie - the women are an accessory and not crucial to the plot, and every year the heroines get younger and younger even though the heroes are our father/grandfather's age.

All these unrealistic beauty standards are perpetuating ideas that Tamil women aren't as beautiful and that white skin is the best for women, not for men though. Cause men can look however they want to, they're entitled to a white-Skinned Woman. I'm really tired of the Tamil industry importing women and not utilising our talent!

When will we ever see a movie where a woman's looks aren't as important? When will we see movies where women actually have a crucial role that affects the plot and not a role where women just have casual sex and drink in the guise of feminism?

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

He lost May

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

And boy are my arms legs.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

I guess the concept didn't work

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

Put it on my bill

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments