The Malayalam Movie Artists Association (AMMA) was dissolved on Tuesday, 27 August, following allegations of sexual harassment. Due to this, 17 members including AMMA President and South Superstar Mohanlal resigned from their posts. Sexual harassment complaints were made against three members of AMMA. A case has been registered against two of these members. The decision to dissolve the association was taken after the Hema Committee report came out. Actually, there were allegations of sexual harassment of female artists in the Malayalam film industry for the last several years. To investigate this, a 3-member committee was formed in 2019 under the chairmanship of retired Justice Hema. After 4 years, on August 19, the Hema Committee has submitted a 233-page report to the Kerala government, in which exploitation by many big artists came to the fore. These 3 members of AMMA have been accused
In the last 3 days, AMMA General Secretary and Veteran Malayalam actor Siddique, Joint Secretary Baburaj and another member Director Ranjit have been accused of sexual abuse. A Malayalam actress accused Siddique of rape. After which Siddique resigned from his post. On August 26, a junior artist accused Baburaj of sexual abuse. After this a case was registered against him. A case was registered against Director Ranjit on August 27. Malayalam industry condemned, angry with AMMA for not taking action Mohanlal has been associated with AMMA since 1994
The Malayalam Movie Artists Association (AMMA) was formed in 1994. Many actors and actresses of the Malayalam film industry were associated with it. The work of the association was to solve the problems related to the artists.
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