Six years after the #MeToo movement in Bollywood, a new scandal is shaking Indian cinema. A report on sexist and sexual violence in Mollywood was made public on August 19, giving rise to several complaints.
A new #MeToo wave is sweeping the Indian film industry. A report on sexist and sexual violence in Mollywood, submitted to the Kerala state government in 2019, was made public on August 19, report “Le Monde” and “Libération”. This document points to “sexual harassment”, “omnipresent” in the world of the seventh art of this southern Indian state. “Men in the industry openly and unscrupulously demand sexual relations, as if it were a right”, denounces the Hema commission, created in 2017 after several actresses spoke out, following the kidnapping and sexual assault by several men of star Karthika Menon. This publication, ordered by the state information commission, comes six years after the birth of the #MeToo movement in Bollywood, in 2018.
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The Hema commission is based on confidential interviews with several people working in the world of cinema. This 290-page report describes an industry under the influence of a “mafia of powerful men”, made up of around fifteen people. The victims speak of blackmail over employment by actors, producers and directors. The latter are said to be in the habit of…
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