'Women in film industry wearing revealing dresses not correct', veteran actor T Sarada says in Hema Commission report
Thiruvananthapuram/IBNS: 'The way women in the film industry dress these days is not correct. More than concealing, their style of dressing exposes body parts', veteran actor T Sarada observed in the report of the Hema Commission, which was constituted to look into the issues of women in Malayalam cinema.
Sarada has made these observations in the part where individual recommendations of the commission members are included.
She is one of the three members of the commission.
The newly-released Hema Commission report has reportedly exposed shocking details about the Malayalam film industry including casting couch and exploitation of women.
Many women have stated that sexual favours are often demanded in exchange for job opportunities, media reports said.
The report further states that Malayalam cinema is run by criminals and there is widespread sexual exploitation.
As a part of her observation, she said there are practical problems in enhancing the participation of women and that she doesn't favour women's involvement in technical studies of cinema.
Under the topic 'sexual harassment' she notes, ''The way many people ( women) in the industry are dressed is not correct. More than concealing, their style of dressing exposes their body parts.''
After making this observation, she added, ''In the olden days, there were no conversations with sexual double meanings in the sets. Similarly, there were no sexual assaults on the sets like touching … the actresses, junior artists, or technicians. Today it cannot be said that these kind that these kinds of harassment do not exist in the film industry ''.
She noted that there is a lot of influence of Western culture on our society.
''The society today is different from that of yesteryears. Hence everybody mingles with each other quite openly. Girlfriends and boyfriends are very public now. The culture of the new generation is different."
As a part of her suggestion to improve women's participation in the film industry, she said: "The present day women are educated. They argue for their rights. There should be no problem for the producer. He should not be destroyed."
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