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Report on sexual harassment, casting couch in Kerala film industry shakes up Indian cinema
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Members of the Women in Cinema Collective with Mr Pinarayi Vijayan, Chief Minister of India’s Kerala state. The group came into being in the wake of a popular actress being sexually assaulted.
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BENGALURU – The internationally feted Malayalam-language film industry has been rocked by a government-appointed committee’s findings of rampant sexual harassment and a casting couch culture in the movie business in the southern Indian state of Kerala.
The report of the committee appointed by the government of Kerala state – where Malayalam is the vernacular language – has triggered a storm of police complaints, arrests and a rash of new allegations against leading figures in the movie industry.
