Lately I’ve been feeling a disconnect with most Tamil ads I see — they’ve changed a lot. Once upon a time, ads were simple, emotional, and had that “girl/boy next door” vibe. They felt like they came from our neighborhoods, shot in the heat and chaos of Chennai, with faces and voices we could relate to. Now? Everything feels overly polished, “westernised,” and in many cases, just… senseless.

It’s hard not to notice how many recent ads cast super fair models, sometimes from other regions, to represent a Chennai lifestyle. Seriously — how is anyone walking around that fair in 40°C heat without even a hint of tan? It’s like they’ve completely given in to a pan-Indian beauty stereotype, rather than showing real Tamil tones, accents, or textures. That local authenticity seems to be vanishing.

I miss ads like the Nijjam Pakku ad — remember that one? It had beautiful hyming lyrics, a soothing tune, and didn’t try too hard. Just real emotion, simple dressing, and a vibe that felt personal. Even the way they filmed daily life felt grounded.

Do you guys feel the same way? Any nostalgic Tamil ads you loved growing up :))

Hi everyone!

I'm a college student living in a small, tier-3 city, currently trying to become financially independent. To be honest, my family often makes me feel like I'm a burden, and it's been weighing on me. I want to start earning for myself so I can manage my own expenses and become less dependent on my family.

Since I'm studying, a regular on-site job isn't practical for me. Finding suitable opportunities where I live can also be difficult, so I'm trying to explore remote work.

I'm open to pretty much any legitimate paid opportunity that I can manage alongside college, including:

- Remote internships and part-time jobs

- Website creation and AI-assisted development

- Writing, proofreading and content creation

- Research, documentation and presentation design

- Online tutoring and academic doubt-solving

- Virtual assistance and other freelance projects

I'm a CSE student, comfortable learning new tools, and willing to put in the work. I can dedicate around 1–2 hours a day, so flexible opportunities would be ideal.

If anyone knows a business looking for help, works at a company offering remote internships, needs someone for a project, or could connect me with potential clients, I'd genuinely appreciate it.

I'm not asking for handouts. I want an opportunity to work, earn honestly, and build some independence for myself.

Please comment or DM me if you know of anything. Even a referral or a useful lead would mean a lot.

Thank you for reading!

Hi everyone, I’m planning to set up a temporary Diwali cracker shop.

I want to know when is the best time to buy crackers in bulk from Sivakasi. Is there a significant price difference between buying 3 weeks before Diwali and buying just 1 week before?

Also, any advice on wholesale suppliers, transportation, licensing, and investment would be helpful.

Thanks!

When everyone is trying to get their kids to go outside and play, there’s this one window glass ad where they depict the sound of crows as something terrible that shouldn't enter your home. In a different ad from the same brand, they literally show someone about to smash their maid's head It feels entirely like an ad made by the elite wormfire, for the elite wormfires. Then there's another paint ad showing business owners lock up or "imprison" their workers just because their product is so good. Finally, a well-established jewelry showroom with a popular host is heavily pushing people to sell their gold instead of pawning it, claiming selling is always better. Yeah, better for the company! It saves them from paying import duties, taxes, transport charges, and security costs to source gold. Instead, they get it directly from common people. I don’t know—I used to see brilliant, creative commercials that genuinely made me go "wow." Now, it just feels like corporations are shoving toxic ideas down our throats with a fake smile.

my friend and i are visiting around the end of november, mainly for one activity: we want to climb a mountain, then camp out for the night on the peak, watch the stars- then head back the next morning.

I've gone camping before in kerala but never in tamil nadu. we don't want to do anything illegal or cause any stress to the locals. ideally the place would require no permit but we're ready to take one if required.

we'd be in Tamil Nadu for 5 days, and this would take up only 1 day, so we were hoping to get some recommendations for places to visit the other 4 days. ideally some great nature spots that aren't very crowded.

nandri!

For those who support or like TVK (Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam), is there any action, policy, decision, or scheme by the TVK government that you dislike, disagree with, or feel disappointed about?

Even if you support TVK, what is one thing you think the government should change or improve?

It’s not about TVK / DMK and no Hatred to TVK. Just curiosity on people opinions and to know the extent to which people don’t blindly support TVK.

My personal opinion is

1) They could have avoided the Orange colour buses and could have gone to common colours
2) Free buses for women could have been regulated to the needy ones alone.
3) Could have developed a public reporting platform to raise people concerns including Traffic violations.

Now,BEB(boss engira baskaran) Oru romba Good paddum tha

But I want A Second One

Yes yennaku theriyum oru 2nd arya-ou Santhanam oru show -la sonnanga,but that was in like 2024-2025

It's been romba long time

Soo

If you wrote and directed boss engira Baskaran 2(or any name),whats the plot?

For me,I will make a title like "Baskaran 2.0"

I want to ask some career related doubts.

I am checking regularly. no of counts increasing but still mine kids birth certificate not generated.

I called hosiptal and ensured they submitted and they did on 15 days after birth.

IS THIS DELAY COMMON?

I have lived both in Karnataka and Tamilnadu for a significant amount of time. Both states have had free bus scheme for a while now but both operate differently

Earlier Tamilnadu had this pink bus system. Women were given free tickets only in these bus

Later in 2023, Karnataka also announced free bus system but unlike TN, they made it free for all non-ac govt bus. The only caveat was that, it was limited to Karnataka Aadhar card holders. Even I thought why can’t TN also follow the same system instead of the pink bus system.
It’s been 3 yrs now and I haven’t observed auto mafia complaining about it and demanding to cancel the scheme.

Though Bangalore auto mafias are greedy af in auto stands, when you hire them through any app, they don’t ask for a single rupee extra even it’s raining, traffic, far location etc etc. if they feel the quoted rate is less, they just don’t accept it. Their only fight is against bike taxis.

But in Chennai, booking auto/cab is a multi-step process. One has to always engage in negotiations even if booked through apps.
Here they don’t follow meter system, won’t accept for app quoted price, demand ridiculous amount for traffic, weather etc, are against bike taxis, and now want cancellation of free bus scheme also. Maybe they will target metros next. Why would anyone have any empathy towards them?

I've been trying to find good quality incandescent Christmas lights in India for quite some time now. Especially something like Tru-Tone lights, which give that beautiful warm, old fashioned Christmas look.

The ones available here are mostly cheap LEDs with very harsh colours. Importing good ones from the US is ridiculously expensive as well.

I feel like there's a decent business opportunity here for someone willing to import or manufacture these locally. I'm sure there are people who wouldn't mind spending a little extra for quality Christmas decorations.

Not sure how big the market would be, but it's frustrating that we still don't have proper alternatives here.

If anyone here is into importing or looking for niche business ideas, maybe this is something worth exploring.

P.S. If anyone knows a way to import Tru-Tone lights to India at a reasonable cost, or can help arrange a cheaper import, please let me know!

Never trust any insta influencers and the guys who give fk motivation advice in insta- specially insta names start with levelups-----#wakeupguys

My gang says puliodhare, but I can't decide on the side dish. Paruppu Vadai or chickpeas is a big no as it might trigger 🦍💨.

I saw a map depicting states with intercaste marriage and tamilnadu had a very low percentage of intercaste marriage.Our political parties portrayed that Brahmins are casteist and need to be abolish their supremacy.Which I appreciate because everyone should be treated equally.But other obc castes are the most casteist and oppression against sc and st in rural areas are done by these native caste.But political parties like dmk are scared to talk against them as they will lose their vote bank.Do u think we have to criticize these so called upper caste like Devar ,Goundar,Vanniyar.Brahmins are treated as the scapegoat for caste supremacy.Saying this as a a guy from one of these obc caste where i experienced my own community treating the lower castes

like animals.if we need to abolish caste system we need to question them.I don't know why Brahmins are portrayed as casteist where most of the rural honour killings are done by these caste Edit: Really happy abt the sensible comments and critical thinking here.

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The above political parties had 70 years to plan, build good roads with working drainage design. But since the cronies were ridden with corruption and the party loyalist and the so called thinkers only cared about idealogy the not about shitty roads and drainage.

Now crying about water stagnation is laughable. Maybe these idealogical zombies should have punished these cronies in elections who looted the state's coffers through these bad road projects. Idealogy>>>>corruption results in bad infrastructure, more income inequality and bad rule of law.

thanks to these people for tanking our state.

Never trust any insta influencers and the guys who give fk motivation advice in insta- specially insta names start with levelups-----#wakeupguys

I think the DMK will absatin or support the bill... but the political fall out of such a thing would be a death knell to its future in politics ...just like the AIADMK.. infact if they held the loksabha elections the TVK and the congress would sweep.... my question is why is the DMK on suicide mission to kill their own political future ?...dont they see that aligning with the BJp has done no political party any good that all political parties have been destroyed from within aligning with the bjp ? ...in this case not only would they be eaten by the bjp i think the people of tamilnadu will throw them out like they threw out the AIADMK ...

Sri Sathya Sai
Meenakshi
St Peter’s
Karpaga Vinayaga
Srinivasan, Samayapuram

Guys, I made this site for guessing purely Tamil movies. There are other game modes like Padam Timeline, Poster guesser, Tamil Solitaire that has been released lately.

Try it and let me know what is your favorite 🫰

I’ll be joining DSU for MBBS soon. If anyone is currently studying there, please DM me or comment here..

I have a few questions about the university.

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to check the ownership history of my maternal grandfather’s house in a rural village in Virudhunagar district, Tamil Nadu, under the Virudhunagar Joint I SRO. I want to find out whether the property is still in his name or whether it may have been transferred within the family through a Settlement Deed or Release Deed without my mother's knowledge.

I want to do this initial investigation online and discreetly, without approaching anyone in person.

I don't have access to the original property deeds, Patta number, or Survey Number, so I'm trying to identify the Survey/Subdivision Number from scratch. Unfortunately, I've hit a wall with the government portals:

- TNGIS GI Viewer (tngis.tn.gov.in): Keeps throwing a database/server login error, preventing me from viewing the maps.

- Patta/Chitta Portal (eservices.tn.gov.in): The “Search by Owner Name” option is no longer available, so I can't search using my grandfather's name.

- TNREGINET Guideline Value Search (Street-wise): Returns “Nothing Found to Display” because the property is in a rural village without indexed streets.

Information I have

- My grandfather's full name

- The exact location of the house, which I can pinpoint on Google Maps satellite view

- Revenue district, taluk, village name, and SRO (Virudhunagar Joint I)

My questions

1. Survey number from a map: Is there any working map website or app that lets me pinpoint a house on a satellite map and identify its Tamil Nadu Survey/Subdivision Number, particularly for rural or Grama Natham residential properties?

2. Searching the EC: Once I identify the main Natham survey number, what is the best way to search for the Encumbrance Certificate (EC) on TNREGINET without knowing the exact subdivision number? Can I search the main survey number without specifying a subdivision?

3. Alternative online methods: Are there any other online options, such as Panchayat house-tax portals or local-body records, that could help me find the Survey Number or Door Number using only the owner's name?

I'd especially appreciate suggestions from anyone who has dealt with rural land records, Grama Natham properties, or Tamil Nadu's online registration and revenue portals.

Thanks in advance for any guidance!

Accidentally booked 10 45 pm show oct 20, I m a girl I can't go out at that time, so if anyone wants it please ask, its not black ticket, just Accidentally booked

I thought drugs are here and there, somehow brought in by low quantities by the junkies and dealers. Now this quantity looks like a whole sale branch? How is it even possible to bring in that much into TN? And why someone from Delhi has to come to catch this? Isn't TN police next to scotland police🤔