Malayalam movie actor Mukesh has been accused of sexual assault (File).
Thiruvananthapuram:
Malayalam actor and CPIM MLA M Mukesh – one among many Kerala movie personalities accused of sexual assault after the Justice Hema Committee report launch – hit again Tuesday saying he had been “blackmailed” by his accuser, fellow actor Minu Muneer, and her husband. “The reality should come out… I welcome inquiries into allegations in opposition to filmmakers, together with myself,” he mentioned on Fb.
Ms Munner, on Monday, informed EDNBOX that Mr Mukesh and one other outstanding actor, Jayasurya, had bodily and verbally abused her on the set of a film in 2013. Mukesh, she additionally mentioned, had made undesirable advances when she sought his assist to affix a Malayalam movie actors’ organisation known as AMMA. “There’s plenty of exploitation on this trade. I’m a witness and sufferer. Once I moved to Chennai, no person reached out to me, asking me what had occurred…” she informed EDNBOX.
Demanding a “clear investigation… to disclose the true nature of allegations mentioned within the public”, he claimed Ms Muneer first approached him in 2009 after which in 2022, when she requested for “at the least Rs 1 lakh” and her husband adopted that by demanding “an enormous amount of cash”.
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“In 2009 a lady, calling herself ‘Meenu Kurien’, launched herself as somebody in search of roles in movies… she contacted me on cellphone and got here to my home with images,” the CPIM chief mentioned.
“When she mentioned she needed assist with alternatives (in films)… I mentioned I’d strive.”
“She later despatched me a message about my well mannered behaviour… at no level in the course of the assembly did she level out flaws in my behaviour or categorical displeasure…” Mukesh wrote in Malayalam.
He mentioned the girl contacted him once more in 2022, when she mentioned her identify was Minu Muneer.
“They (Ms Muneer and her husband) requested me for monetary assist. Once I expressed my helplessness, (they mentioned) Rs 1 lakh was sufficient. She despatched a WhatsApp message asking for this quantity.”
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Mukesh additionally mentioned he acquired a second message by which Ms Muneer informed him “folks from a selected neighborhood had been requested to intervene” as he had not paid the cash.
“Just a few days later one other individual known as, claiming to be her husband, and demanded an enormous amount of cash. This gang has been continually blackmailing me for cash…” he mentioned, accusing Ms Muneer of levelling sexual assault prices to capitalise on sympathy generated by the Hema Committee report.
“I’m revealing this on foundation of proof relating to messages they despatched me. I’m not one to conspire to hurt somebody’s persona or dignity…” Mukesh mentioned, “However I’m not able to give up to blackmail techniques. The details should come out in opposition to those that set traps to wreck the lives of others.”
Amid the flood of intercourse assault allegations, earlier in the present day veteran actor Mohanlal resigned as chief of AMMA. The chief committee additionally resigned.
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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, underneath extreme scrutiny, introduced a seven-member SIT to probe all sexual assault prices.
That has not, nonetheless, stopped the avalanche of political assaults from the opposition BJP and the Congress-led United Democratic Entrance, who’ve demanded accountability from the state authorities, significantly amid claims it sought to bury the report to guard prime actors.
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