“I can understand and respect his passion. But now even she believes that Adhi has come a long way since then. As an activist who’s been at the receiving end of many unpleasant comments, she says the only time she received rape and death threats was after this response video. Rapper and producer Sofia Ashraf made a response video to Club le Mabbu le back in 2012, calling out on the song’s awful misogyny. If you feel a tiny strain of empathy, you are not alone. Have you never done stupid things that you can’t undo?” So I wrote the song out of misguided notions. Where I grew up in Coimbatore, there was absolutely no pub culture, and meeting women at clubs was a culture shock to me. I was in class 12 when I wrote that song. “I was wrong to have stereotyped women that way.
Today, however, Adhi unexpectedly owns up to his past misogyny.
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But it also got him his first film song, Thapellam Thappe Illai, for the movie Naan (2012). His first song Club le Mabbu le was the harbinger of future controversies - the lyrics shamed women who partied, smoked, consumed drugs and were in live-in relationships. In 2016, PETA denounced his jallikattu video as “factually inaccurate” and said that HHT should “stick to making music”. HHT’s song Sait Ji for Meesaya Murukku offended some members of the Jain community, and had to be taken down from YouTube. The controversies around his music videos have fuelled a large percentage of Adhi’s fame. What you see is what you get.” Adhi and Jeeva from Hip Hop Tamizha. But one thing is apparent - Adhi is not here to pretend. Either that the realistic depiction of his life is endearing and fresh, or that it is too everyday-esque to be a movie. Sethumadhavan Nappan, movie critic at Bangalore Mirror and founder of says, “There are two ways to look at Meesaya Murukku. Although he’s not the public face, Jeeva invested equally in setting up a mini-studio, looking for their first break and producing the group’s music.Įither ways, Adhi’s charm seems to have done the trick. Jeeva is the compositional backbone of HHT, both according to Adhi and the movie. Throughout the duo’s rise, it’s always been easy to mistake Hip Hop Tamizha to be just a moniker for Adhi alone. The film also gives a peek into R Jeeva’s life, who is famous for being reclusive. Even in the confines of the movie’s masala formula of a romantic musical, this simplicity makes for an refreshing watch. Instead, he’s a simple boy-next-door who believes in his dreams, with minimal macho dishum dishums with goons ten times his size. While the film constantly brings focus back to twirling of moustaches, unlike his fellow actors in Kollywood, Adhi does not try to overtly ‘man-up’ his character. The term Meesaya Murukku means ‘twirl the moustache’, something Adhi’s father always repeated to Adhi. “’Jaichalum, thothalum meesaya murkku’ (win or lose, always twirl your moustache and hold your head high), he’d tell me,” Adhi recounts. According to the movie, the title comes from a phrase Adhi’s father (played by comedian Vivek) would often deploy on his son.
Meesaya Murukku chronicles 26-year-old Adhi’s rise through his lens. And now they have done the unlikely thing of releasing a biopic based on themselves, called Meesaya Murukku (Twirl Your Moustache). After Yogi B, arguably the pioneer of Tamil rap and hip hop, HHT has been the group who have kept Tamil youngsters on the beat in the last few years. The hit also caught the attention of the alcohol brand Rémy Martin, which helped launch HHT’s first album, Hip Hop Tamizhan later that year.īuilding on that success, the duo have delivered further hit singles like Vaadi Pulla Vaadi and their jallikattu sensation Takkaru Takkaru.