When I look back, as a teenager, I was singing those songs (I am a bad singer, that’s different) which today when I look back, I feel thoroughly embarrassed. That’s when I realized, I think very late in my life, that Tamil lyricists in their expression of love have always concentrated on the objectification of women and that had led to most of the lines being bawdy. The two languages I know so well that I cannot make a mistake in understanding what the lines actually mean.
I have been closely following Hindi and Tamil language film songs since the 60s. Of course, Indian movies are especially noted for their love songs, which are generally very popular among youngsters, partly for their music and sometimes for their lyrics, which again sell a kind of dream. It is a kind of fantasy, more so for women, because all the love scenes that we see in films have men showering too much love, care, attention, and devotion on the woman they love, and they say dreamy lines like "you are the only woman in my life and I will lay my life for you." We are all aware that cinema sells dreams, especially love scenes depicted in movies, which are dreams only since they never happen in real life. Tamil film song lyrics bordering on the obscene ?