Casting Couch
We will tell you about the gangs of producers and actors of heroes who demand sex in exchange for films in the Malayalam film industry. And we will also raise the issue whether, like the Malayalam film industry, should not an enquiry committee be set up in Bollywood i.e. Hindi film industry and other film industries in India about the status of women. But before that you should see that after the revelations of Hema Committee in the Malayalam film industry, two actresses have made serious allegations of sexual exploitation.
Malyalam Actress Statement
They called me to a hotel and when I went there I didn’t think he would think like this. Later I came to know that the film that was mentioned did not exist. I was understood they plan for my exploitation in that hotel and it was a trap. Now whatever he is saying is a lie. He did this with many others besides me. He was the first person who tried this. During the shooting of the film, when I was in the room, he caught me from behind and kissed me. After this I escaped from there. This was my first film. I could not understand how all this happened. After this Jayasurya called me to his flat but I did not go.
Citing the Hema Commission report unravelling the casting couch factor in the #Malayalam film industry, Bengali actor Ritabhari Chakraborty alleged that many such reports have similarities with her own experiences.https://t.co/JK5whZOXVO
— The Hindu (@the_hindu) August 27, 2024
The Malayalam Film Industry: A Case Study
These are some actors of the Malayalam film industry who are telling you what they have to do to get a role in a film and this report makes many big and shocking revelations about the Malayalam film industry which I want to tell you today.
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Its opening comment paints a dark picture of an industry that looks very shiny and glamorous from the outside. What is written in it? See, the sky is full of mysteries in which the stars twinkle and the moon is beautiful, but scientific investigation has revealed that neither the stars twinkle nor the moon is beautiful. Don’t trust what you see because even salt looks like sugar from a distance. This report says that there is a criminal gang or a whole lobby in the film industry. It includes a handful of big actors, producers, directors and production controllers.
How entire gang work and exploits?
This lobby has the entire Malayalam industry in its grip. These are such big and influential people who have complete control over the film industry. No one can work in the film industry by angering them. This report says that even if you do your work very well, even if you are a very good actor, if this lobby is not happy with you, you will be thrown out. This whole gang harasses women and sexually exploits them. Women who oppose it do not get work in films later.
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Men who know about it also remain silent because they are afraid of their career ending. And women who surrender to this lobby and compromise are given some code names and with this code name they get work later. Not only actresses, other women working in the film industry are also forced to have sex in exchange for work and they are harassed on every small thing. This committee talked to many women, talked to many artists, the stories they told are very frightening. They scare women. They are forced to compromise by threatening and blackmailing them. Many women have said that they are defamed on social media, objectionable comments are made about them, their pictures are made viral, they are trolled, obscene messages about them are sent on WhatsApp, this is how their sexual exploitation will start, now we tell you this
Request to form Committee
That just like this hema committee was formed to investigate the Malayalam film industry, shouldn’t a similar investigation be done in our Hindi film industry, Tamil film industry, Telugu industry, Kannada cinema, similar investigation should be done in the Bengali film industry as well because the story that we are telling you today, this story of female artists, is actually the story of every film industry. We want to tell the female artists and all our female viewers today that if you are in any industry, you need not be afraid of anyone and especially the female artists, young models, young artists who want to make a name for themselves in the film industry, who are waiting for entry, who are wondering when they will get entry, when will they get work and they feel that they will not get work without exploitation, they will not get work without casting couch. For this, a word has been given in English – casting couch and many people know about it and this is such a thing that everyone knows but no one talks about it outside, so we want to tell all those female artists that if something like this is happening to you, do not sit silent, raise your voice. we should try and get this whole cinema straight now.
Hema Committee Report
▶ Women work under code names
▶Pressure on other women to have sex
► Accused of blackmailing and intimidation
▶ Making dirty messages viral
▶ Comments on looks and sexuality
▶Criminal gangs in the film industry
▶ Control of some directors and producers
▶ Influential people dominate the industry
▶ Women are denied work if they protest
▶ If a compromise is reached, a code name is given
▶ Sexual harassment in hotel
▶ Fear of sexual harassment at workplace
▶ Junior artist treated like slaves
▶ Women do not complain to police due to fear
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