Mollywood's #MeToo movement a wake-up call for industry

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India's Malayalam film industry is facing a major upheaval following the release of the Justice Hema Committee report, which details sexual harassment and unsuitable working conditions for women.

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00:00Thanks for watching.

00:30I was little scared to give complaint at the time.

00:51So I thought that even if I give complaint also, I understood that these people are very

00:55big people and they may influence the highly officials and then I will be into danger.

01:02I'll be in problem.

01:03Even my, I have two children and they are studying in school and it will affect their

01:08studies also.

01:09They understand better keep quiet and just vanish away from this Kerala.

01:25You can see a talented girls performing in the Facebook, but they are scared to come

01:36to film industry.

01:37Why?

01:38Because some seniors are dominating the Amma Association and film industry.

01:42So when they come, they should share the bed means the teenage girls.

01:48They can't think about the new generation.

01:51They can't think about it.

02:17If there is a wrongdoing, if there is something like this, which is happening and the women

02:23accept that, yes, this has happened and men come across and say, yes, we have made a mistake.

02:27Punish them.

02:29Send a very strict message across that men cannot fool around with the dignity, integrity

02:38and respectability of a woman.

02:41Everybody is talking about that.

02:43Okay.

02:44There's a me too moment.

02:45There is a sex scandal which has happened in Mollywood and this is what the cinema is

02:49about.

02:50Why nobody questions the government that if this case, if this report was ready five years

02:54ago, what stopped you or who stopped you from releasing this report five years ago?

03:00I'm glad for that, that it's going to send shivers down the spine of the men who probably

03:16even have this kind of a mentality.

03:18You know, they always say that karma is going to come back to you in this birth.

03:22And this this report, definitely this kind of an outburst.

03:27There was a bottle of soda which was shaken up so much that the cover had to go off on

03:34its own.

03:35So this is kind of a volcano which has erupted.

03:38And I'm glad it did.

03:42Because next time, everybody is going to be very, very careful about it.

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