The Latest Breaking News from AMMA

In a span of two days, all the office-bearers of one of the biggest organisations of actors in India – the Association of Malayalam Movie Artists (AMMA) – have quit. They had to, for in the days following the release of the Hema Committee report – containing disclosures of abuse…

The fallout from the Hema Committee report continues to unfold, with new perpetrators being named everyday. While the en masse resignation of the leadership of the Association of Malayalam Movie Artists might have solved one headache, the Kerala government seems to have another, more problematic issue to deal with. Two…

Nearly a week after the Hema Committee report unleashed what can only be called the second coming of the MeToo movement in the Malayalam film industry, many debates are still pitting ‘formal complaints’ as a binary opposite to women’s ‘informal’ narratives of their experiences of sexual harassment. “Let the women…

“I have not heard knocks on my door. I don’t know of safety issues in the Malayalam film industry,” said actor Jomol in response to the findings of the Hema Committee report on the working conditions of women in Malayalam cinema. Jomol, who began her career as a child artist,…