Thiruvananthapuram: The traumatised female actor’s attempt to open up before the media, at a time when powerful male members of the film fraternity are rallying behind the accused, has been silenced. News channels had to cancel the telecast of an interview with the actor on Saturday after she personally, at the last moment, requested not to. Sources said the police had warned her that the interview could land her in a legal tangle, and could also hurt the investigation. The press conference called by the actor a week after the incident in February was also cancelled at the instance of the police.
The interview, which was done not as a ‘bare all’ but as part of the promotion of her latest film ‘Adam Joan’, was canned on Saturday. The news channels, however, did carry snatches of loaded statements made by the actor during the course of the interview. The actor, in a deep crimson outfit, looked serene but sounded bold. “It is quite common in Malayalam cinema to annihilate the chances of those out of favour. Not just me, many others too have experienced it,” the actor says. Her intent to triumph over the tragedy, and the stifling practices within the film industry, stood out in those “least sensational” interview bits put out by channels. “My profession is only a small part of my life. Just because someone wants me out of cinema does not mean that I will stop living,” she said. Her decision to speak out was not the result of an adventurous journalist’s curiosity.
Channel sources said she looked like she wanted to talk. It was her way of fighting back when an array of powerful male members of the film fraternity almost stood in a queue to get a couple of minutes with Dileep in his remand cell inside the Aluva Sub Jail. According to close friends of the female actor, K B Ganesh Kumar’s exhortation to those “who had taken Dileep’s favours” to come out in support of him had put the actor under immense stress. Close friends say she even fears for her life. She had already taken another MLA, P C George, to court for having even doubted the veracity of her trauma.
