Chennai: In further difficulties for the embattled Malayalam film business, prominent South Indian actress and BJP activist Raadhika Sarathkumar has claimed that concealed cameras were put in caravans on movie sets to film actresses changing clothing.
The actress, married to South Indian actor Sarathkumar, stated in an interview with a private channel that she retaliated when she discovered hidden cameras in caravans where female actors change clothes.
“After I got to know that cameras were placed in caravans to record women actresses, I did not use the facility, and when I needed to change, I returned to the hotel room,” said Radhika.
“I have been told by various women personalities working in the Malayalam film industry how people come and knock at their hotel rooms and some have sought my help also,” said Radhika.
The actor, who contested for the Virudhanagar Lok Sabha seat as a BJP candidate in the 2024 general elections, stated that the mobile phones of the persons who installed these concealed cameras kept scenes of actresses in separate folders.
She claimed that tapes were saved in files named after the actress and then seen by men on the location.
The Malayalam cinema industry is under scrutiny after female performers revealed that they had been sexually attacked and abused by certain well-known actors and directors.
Several women actors made alarming allegations following the release of the Kerala government’s Justice Hema committee report.
FIRs have been registered against popular Malayalam actors Mukesh, who is also the CPI(M) legislator from Kollam, Siddik, Jayasuriya, Sudheesh, Edavela Babu, and Maniyanpilla Raju. FIRs have also been registered against Malayalam directors Ranjith and V. K. Prakash.
Meanwhile, Tamil superstar and South Indian Artists Association (SIAA) general president Vishal has urged female artists to come forward if they have had adverse experiences in the Tamil cinema industry.
Kutti Padmini, a Tamil performer and national award winner, claimed that she was sexually molested when she was just eleven years old in the Tamil film industry.
She had said that when her mother questioned this, they were removed from the film set.
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