Shocking revelations have been made about the Malayalam film industry. Justice Hema Committee Report came out on Monday. Accordong to PTI, this report talked about the sexual harassment that women are facing in the Malayalam film industry.
The report also said that women are offered work with the demand for sexual relations. Many women have alleged that they were forced to compromise even before starting work. Since then, concerns have increased about the safety of women artists in the Malayalam film industry.
Let us tell you that the government constituted the Justice Hema Committee in 2019. The committee studied the issues that women are facing in the Malayalam film industry. Important details of sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse of women have been exposed in this report.
Five years after, the report was submitted to the government, a copy of the report was given to the media under the RTI Act. The report says that female artists had to face harassment. This also includes incidents of drunk men knocking on the doors of female artists' rooms in the film industry.
The report also says that many women who are victims of sexual harassment hesitate to complain to the police due to fear. According to the report, female artists who are ready to compromise are given code names and those who are not ready to compromise are not given work. "Offers of acting or any other work in cinema are given to women with the demand for sexual relations.
As I have already told, women are a.