The Women in Cinema Collective (WCC) has sought the government’s and the Kerala Women’s Commission’s intervention to ensure that internal committees are functioning in all Malayalam film production sets, in light of the sexual abuse allegations against filmmaker Liju Krishna, director of the upcoming Nivin Pauly-starrer Padavettu, and the film’s executive producer Bibin Paul.
The women who had levelled the allegations against them had demanded that their name be removed from the credit line of the film.
Padavettu did not have an internal committee. Mr. Krishna was arrested from the sets of the movie early in March this year, after the woman had levelled the allegations against him on social media and filed a case against him. However, he managed to get out on bail three weeks later and complete the rest of the film.
