New Delhi, Aug 30: Actress Sandhya Mridul flashbacks a few years and remembers when she came out and wrote on social media platform X against her harassment. She has also not forgotten how some publications trashed her. “Today, all you need to do is take screenshots of the lewd messages men in the industry or elsewhere send and put them up.
You know many people stress that the ‘Me Too’ movement failed. On the contrary, it has made many men cautious the ones who would say the nastiest things now know when to shut up,” actor Sandhya Mridul said. Her latest outing may have been the solo comedy show ‘Ridiculous Ms Mridul’ performed in the national capital recently, still, the actor, who started her career with the popular TV serial 'Swabhimaan' and went to do 'Banegi Apni Baat', 'Koshish' and 'Hu Ba Hu', smiles and says, “Well, now when I enter my mother’s room, she knows the television must be switched off.
” Deciding to walk away from the repetitive character of television, Mridul might have done some successful films like 'Saathiya', ‘Page -3’ and others, but it was crossover cinema where her soul was ‘Strings’, ’13th Floor', ‘Chowki', ‘Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.’, 'The Great Indian Butterfly', ‘Angry Indian Goddesses’ and ‘Waisa Bhi Hota Hai’.
While many insiders cautioned her that doing such cinema was a perfect recipe for being ignored by the ‘mainstream’ and going broke, she remembers telling herself: “Passion has always driv.