MUMBAI:Actress Samantha Ruth Prabhu has requested the Telangana government to publish a Hema Committee report amid the Mollywood #MeToo movement.
A few days after the Hema Committee report was released, several well-known Malayalam celebrities have come forward to tell horrifying tales in which they are accused of sexual misconduct by film industry veterans.
Samantha lauded the Women in Cinema Collective (WCC) in Kerala and The Voice of Women group on Friday for their efforts to progress the harassment movement in the Indian film industry.
The actress also asked that women in the Telugu film industry have a safe place to work. "We, the women of the Telugu film industry, welcome the Hema Committee report and applaud the persistent efforts of the WCC in Kerala, which has laid the path to this moment. Taking cue from the WCC, The Voice of Women, a support group for women in the TFI (Telugu Film Industry), was created in 2019," Samantha wrote in her Instagram story.
She added, "We hereby urge the Telangana government, to publish the submitted sub committee report on sexual harassment, which can help frame government and industry policies, to establish a safe working environment for women in the TFI."
The primary objective of the report is to investigate the gender inequalities, sexual harassment, and working conditions that Malayalam actresses have to face.
Legal difficulties caused a multi-year delay in the release of the report. Furthermore, the public's reaction to its release has ranged from shock to demands for action, with some asking why the government and police have been hesitant to act on the findings of the report.
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