MeToo: Amala Paul opens up about Susi Ganeshan

Susi Ganeshan, the Tamil director, has been facing allegations of sexual harassment. He was accused of harassing a woman director Leena Manimekalai. Susi Ganeshan is known for making films like 'Mallanna' with Vikram and 'Thiruttu Payale'. He recently made sequel to 'Thiruttu Payale' which was also dubbed into Telugu as 'Dongodocchadu'. Amala Paul has played female lead in this movie. Lending her support to Leena, Amala Paul has also shared her experience with this director.

Amala Paul said she was subjected to double meaning talks and unchivalrous bodily contacts during the making of the film. He treated her badly.

Here is her full statement...

I support Leena Manimekalai's allegations and can imagine this episode happening with her, from a man who has a twisted set of moral values and utterly low respect for women. She being an aspiring director could have made her an easy target for such an incidence to take place.

Me too despite being the leading actress for Thirutupayale2 was subjected to double meaning talks, misrepresented offers and unchivalrous bodily contacts. This pretty much made my experience of shooting TP2, a mentally fatiguing one. I can totally understand what she could have been subjected through. I applaud her for the courage she showed by narrating her ordeal on a public platform.

In our emerging economy and ever expanding female work force, this behaviour is rampantly occurring everywhere, in all trades and industries. These men treat their house wives and daughters different, but when it comes to their colleagues they don't miss a chance to show an upper hand and take advantage.

This is one of the main reasons, we Indians arc unable to unlock our true potential either in creative, service or spiritual industries.

We have heard a lot of cases from spiritual and creative industries. But true change will come when service and unorganized sectors are also heard for their #metoo ordeals.
It's high time that government and judicial benches device out a system to ad-dress these issues of our society and not let the female work force of future subjected to such harrowing #metoo incidents.