Beedi

I always write with the music on and a bottle of good red. And smoke Mangalore Ganesh beedies.

I walk in, talking to friendly faces in my aces / Drinking beer, smoking beedis in the back where the bass is

She said: “In rural Tamil Nadu, the state I come from, Kaali is believed to be a pagan goddess. She eats meat cooked in goat’s blood, drinks arrack, smokes beedi [cigarettes]^([sic]) and dances wild … that is the Kaali I had embodied for the film.”