{"id":96683,"date":"2017-07-06T14:19:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T08:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=96683"},"modified":"2017-07-06T14:19:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T08:49:09","slug":"bad-woman-will-go-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/bad-woman-will-go-bed\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad woman will go to bed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Popular Kerala actor and Member of Parliament Vareed Thekkethala has been lambasted by women activists for saying on Wednesday that the &#8220;casting couch&#8221; does not exist in the Malayalam film industry, but &#8220;if the woman is bad, maybe they will go to bed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 72-year-old was responding to reporters when he said, &#8220;The Malayalam film industry is clean now and no such thing as casting couch exists in the industry&#8230; It is not like the yesteryear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The situation today is such that if there is any bad behaviour towards any women, the media will know immediately,&#8221; before adding the offensive comment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96684 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/innocent-kerala-mp-actress-bad-bed-647_070517044620.jpg\" alt=\"Bad woman will go to bed\" width=\"647\" height=\"404\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wrong, said the Women In Cinema Collective (WCC), an organisation launched last month by women in the Malayalam film industry. In Facebook post the organisation challenged Mr Innocent saying, &#8220;New artists face several forms of sexual abuse while entering the film industry.<br \/>\nEven our colleagues like Parvathy and Lakshmi Rai, have spoken about casting couch openly&#8230; We cannot accept the statement that the film industry is free from all kinds of sexual exploitation and there should be cautiousness in making statements in public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The actor-politician later sought to clarify what he had said in a Facebook post, writing, &#8220;Some of my comments to the media have been misinterpreted and published in a way that I did not intend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What I intended to say was that the environment for women to work in the film industry has become more women-friendly than before. AMMA will continue to work against all anti-women practices in the industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Kerala actor and Member of Parliament Vareed Thekkethala has been lambasted by women activists for saying on Wednesday that the &#8220;casting couch&#8221; does not exist in the Malayalam film industry, but &#8220;if the woman is bad, maybe they will go to bed&#8221;. 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