Shine Tom Chacko | Photo credit: Thulasi Kakkat
An emergency meeting of the Monitoring Committee led by the Kerala Film Chamber of Commerce (KFCC) to handle complaints with harassment at the workplace of women in the Malayalam film industry, will be a hero here on Monday 21, 2025) to decide and lose subsequent to Aloshious against their Coprop
The problem became a controversy after Mrs. Aloshious had published in a video in her social media pages accused a male co -star of behaving badly with her after approaching her on the pretext of helping.
He had filed a complaint with the KFCC, the Association of Malayalam (AMMA) films artists and the Internal Complaints (ICC) or the film. He thought he did not disseminate the identity of his co -star and the name of the film, a suspended filtration of his complaint had revealed that he had raised the complaints of bad behavior and consumption of drugs suspended against Mr. Chacko in the location of the film. ALMOVAKYAM.
Saji Nanthiyattu, general secretary of KFCC, said Friday that the emergency meeting of the 29 -member monitoring committee will take place at 3 pm on April 21 to discuss the complaint filed by the actor.
The committee, he said, was formed based on the recommendation of the Women’s Commission of the State of Kerala after the Superior Court of Kerala ordered the cinematographic production houses to form an internal complaints committee according to the sexual harassment of women in the workplace (Posthibition, 2013). The court had issued the directive based on a petition presented by women in collective cinema.
The Committee included 27 members representing several cinematographic bodies and two members of the Kerala State Women Commission. Mr. Nanthiyattu said that a strict action against drug abuse and harassment complaints in cinematographic locations will begin.
AMMA begins the probe
The Tres Member Committee appointed by the AMMA AD-Hoc Committee to investigate the complaint filed by the actor will send a notice to Mr. Chacko seeking his response to the accusations. The Committee, which includes Sarayu Mohan, Ansiba Hassan and Vinu Mohan, has sought the details of the incident of the associates with the film ALMOVAKYAM.
He thought that Mrs. Aloshious is not a member of the actors’ body, she was tolerated by the bodies of the film to present the complaint before her, since Mr. Chacko is her member. It is known that the Ad-Hoc Committee has not established a time frame for the three-member committee to present its report.
Published – April 18, 2025 02:59 PM IST