Parvathy Thiruvothu To NDTV On The Release Of Justice Hema Committee Report: "This Is Just The Beginning"

Parvarthy shared this image. (courtesy: par_vathy ) The Kerala government released the Justice Hema Committee report on Monday. The report has caused a major stir in the state.

It highlights the serious discrimination and exploitation faced by women in the Malayalam film industry. Now, actress Parvathy Thiruvothu , who recently won Best Actress for her film Ullozhukku at the International Film Festival of Melbourne , has opened up about her thoughts on the Justice Hema Committee report. In an exclusive chat with NDTV's Abira Dhar, Parvathy explained the release of Justice Hema Committee report as a “bitter-sweet” achievement.

She said, “The sense of achievement is extremely bitter-sweet for us, mainly because the first deposition happened sometime in 2018 and the report was submitted sometime in 2019. It took so many years for it to come out. The redacted version of it.

In these years, we have had to really beg and grovel and fight. Allies were from the public and from media, who had to join this fight and say ‘Wait, why are you keeping it from us? Why is it not coming out?'” Parvathy Thiruvothu also underlined how the report has been sensationalised. She said, “There was also a certain sensationalising on it.

Whereas, [Justice] Hema Commission report is a study of malpractices in the film industry, which will help us (about) why was it formed and why was the report generated so that work towards forming better workplace culture, workplace practices that is govern.