Jilted Lover Turns Pornographer

Getting dumped hurts. But I imagine that getting dumped and then getting arrested because you turned out to be a misogynistic slime bag is probably a little worse. Earlier this week the Deccan Chonicle reports that police arrested Satheesh, 27, from Ayanavaram for distributing pornographic films of he and his ex-girlfriend as a way to get back at her for leaving him for another man. He sent a copy of the film to her new lover who broke off their engagement and then thought he might have happened upon a nice way to make a little extra cash and started selling them in his neighborhood.

The police found over 100 copies of the film on VCD in a side compartment in his two-wheeler. In a turn of the case that could land him in jail for a long time, they also discovered that he used to sell pirated copies of Tamil DVDs--a crime that will give you a lot more jail time than the porn.

I could spend some space berating the him for his tactless crime and the utter misogyny that no-doubt will damage this girl's reputation in the city for the rest of his life. But I think we can all agree that what he did is criminal and he find his way into a dark hole in the back of a police "re-education chamber".

What really gets me is that he found a market for his C-grade porn material here in Chennai, and that there are people willing to buy such schlock in this city. In a place where a thumb-less primate (I know they are out there somewhere) could tap ten strokes into Google and come up with a world of professional porn in every shape and size, why on earth would people support a local slime bag who is just trying to get back at his ex? At that, they apparently paid money for it. If anything the customers of his film bought it for no other reason than to satisfy their cruel curiosity. They too should be held liable for aiding and abetting the filmmaker.