a) multi tasking
b) learning to spread efforts to ensure that income remains unaffected.
Seriously why are people shocked knowing that Bhuvaneshwari was running this racket. I know that many cine artists are involved in this kind of dealings.
Many decades back- I still remember there used to be talk about the actress who committed suicide (wife of a noted cinematographer) AND her mother coming in as a package deal with clients.
There were always rumors of those two sisters who started pursuing their dreams in Chennai filmdom and had to moonlight as flower sellers in Kollywood.
The yesteryear Malayalee actress who married an alcohlic Christian and was forced to get into this because there was no money at home. I still remember seeing her sitting in the coffee shop at the old Adyar Park Hotel in waiting for her johns. The waiters used to tell me about how she generally used to service an average of two johns a day.
The actress whose teeth were as white as the "Malli Poovu" she used to sell. Later on she "shipped" out.
How about the light eyed mother who ran a joint venture with her daughter as the highlight!! The daughter later courted infamy by marrying a superstar and subsequently was dumped back in Mumbai with two daughters.
I remember one night ( June 10- 1985- the date because it was the marriage anniversary of someone I knew). We were sitting in the downstairs lobby ( direct from car park)- of the Taj on NH Rd- I saw a famous overweight Mumbai director ( who later made a lot of moolah by getting a nicompoop to indulge in histrionics) talking this actress who had starred in this big hit movie ( Nana's debut movie). She kept requesting the director to talk downstairs- however he eventually persuaded her to go up to his room. I still remember the haunted look on her face as she entered the elevator knowing that she was in trouble and yet could do nothing to save herself!
As the years passed on, I remember one superstar who used to book a room at a famous 5 star- hotel in Chennai. He used to come in at night and demand Booze and Biryani- much after the restaurant closed for the night. To keep him in good humor- and to ensure that his demands were met- we used to hide Frozen Biryani on then top most shelf of the walk in freezer! All we had to do when he came in and demanded Biryani- was to heat the frozen stuff and mix butter in it!!
He always wanted to drink Johnnie Walker. I remember we used to fill Director's Special into old Johnnie Walker bottles just for him. After he got drunk- there'd be an extra waiting in the hotel room. There used to be a small hole which the maintenance guys had very cleverly hidden in the wall. We used to kaugh our hads off watching his antics with the extra.
That superstar was not really sized as well!
Later on I've heard that cheap artistes were available near the new Mahabalipuram road at a hotel between 1996-1998. The pimps used to have nice cars and they were the agents who would take you to this drive through hotel. In fact one of my journo friends showed me a picture of a attractive young girl and horror of horrors mentioned to me that this girl was brought down to Chennai from A.P. to be made into a actress. The director who brought her down was an ugly dark guy with very bad language. He married a cute looking pretty actress and yet this guy was running after other girls!
How about that famous yesteryear actress whose granddaughter caused a furore in Chennai by sleeping around so much and then married a Muslim boy. That actress even put a police case saying that her granddaughter was kidnapped by the boy. Actually this girl was being pimped by the husband- I knew them personally and always wondered what the hell was going on. I would land up at this guys house and he would be in the living room and I actually heard him talk to someone telling him that she is available for 3000 rupees! !! I was so disgusted because this guy himself was very rich- but I guess he just wanted to hedge his bets!!
I am sure no one will forget how the wife of a prominent industrialist was at one time living in sin with a yesteryear's superstar who himself was an abusive alcoholic and who actually forced his beautiful wife out of the home. (She had to come back into filmdom in 1986). Today this lady has the world in the palm of her hands- I feel sorry for her present husband! Imagine how many are laughing when they see him!!
Law officers can never fully succeed in stopping prostitution as long as there are actresses who are eager to make money as soon as possible! So why try?
Mr. Police officer help the normal citizen live a safe life. Let the prostitutes do what they have to do!!
Finally even before any of you reply to my post- remember decades ago- the only prostitutes you could score in Chennai was at Kodambakkam"!! This was the same place where movie making and actresses were centered long ago. Dear reader- You go figure out the math.
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