After the Hema Committee report came out, many well-known actresses associated with the Malayalam film industry are openly mentioning the cases of sexual harassment that happened with them. Meanwhile, actresses Geetha Vijayan and Sridevika have also accused director Tulsidas of sexual harassment during the film shooting. Exploited in 1991
Actress Geetha said that the director exploited her during the shooting of the film ‘Chantchattam’ in the year 1991. According to the actress, the director repeatedly knocked on the door of her hotel. When Geetha opposed him, the director refused to explain the scene to her on the film set to take revenge. Sridevika also made similar allegations
Similarly, actress Sridevika has also accused director Tulsidas of knocking on the hotel door late at night. She said that Tulsidas harassed her a lot during the shooting of the film ‘Avan Chandiyude Makan’ released in 2006. He used to ask for her room number from the hotel reception and knock on her door every night. The actress had complained to AMMA
When Sridevika’s mother told this to the actor accompanying her, they changed their rooms. After this, the director angrily cut the actress’ scenes and dialogues from the film. Later Sridevika complained about this to AMMA but no action was taken against the director. The director said – the atmosphere on the set was pleasant
On the other hand, denying these allegations, Tulsidas said in an interview, ‘Nothing like this happened during the shooting of the film. Everyone was in a pleasant atmosphere. I know very well why she is making such allegations against me.’ Actress Meenu also accused four co-actors
On Monday, actor Meenu Munir also accused actors like Mukesh, Maniyampilla Raju, Idavela Babu and Jayasurya of sexual abuse. Referring to this case of the year 2013, she has claimed that some production controllers were also involved in it.
