much understanding, compassion and sensitivity between members of the same sex, congeniality and harmony are the natural products. The completely different wiring of men and women and the factors that make them tick have been widely discussed. When a man finds it difficult to comprehend a woman (and vice versa) and at the same time hits it off perfectly with another man, why not? Of course Science can come to the rescue when it comes to procreational needs. In the years to come, alternate sexuality might perhaps provide a reprieve to the increasing dissonance in heterosexual relationships.

On a totally unrelated plane of discussion, there was something else in Goa which was very interesting to watch. At the risk of sounding a misandrist, it was refreshing to observe a man getting slapped around by a woman that was pattern defying. It took a while to absorb the happenings on screen. If this woman character was shown as normal, it would have been certainly a pioneering operation from Venkat because the normality of the act (just like in regular films where slapping women are considered as normal and mundane as answering nature’s calls) could have been established. Either ways, Venkat has definitely brought Tamil cinema out of its soporific closet and it would only be a self- deceiving act if we don’t want to acknowledge the existence of alternate preferences and orientations .


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