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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicMalayalam film industry

Topic: Malayalam film industry

Acquitted after 8 yrs, Dileep calls trial for gang rape a ‘conspiracy’. How case against him fell apart

The case pertains to a woman-actor abducted by a gang of men, who then took turns to rape & record her. Dileep, after his 2017 arrest, was in jail for 3 months before being released on bail.

Verdict today in 2017 Kerala actor rape case, a look at how it changed Malayalam film industry

Case led to formation of three-member Justice Hema Committee in July 2017, which revealed rampant sexual abuse in Mollywood.

Year after release of Hema panel report, Malayalam actors’ body elects women to its top positions

Thiruvananthapuram: For the first time in its history, the actors' body of the Malayalam film industry elected women to its highest positions on...

The singer of love and loss, P. Jayachandran’s death is personal for all Keralites

Jayachandran's best-known songs are not just romantic, nor limited to Malayalam film industry. He was also the de facto choice for musicians who wanted to evoke a bygone era.

Thilakan called out Malayalam movie mafia before Hema committee report. He was banned for it

Thilakan knew he was one of the best actors in the business. He accused Rajiv Gandhi of giving the National Award to Amitabh Bachchan over him for political reasons.

Global media on why Hema Committee report may have set off another #MeToo wave, and Kashmir’s conundrum

Editorials & news reports also focus on how 'rich and poor countries can fight climate change together', and whether India is seen more as a staunch US ally or as independent powerhouse.

Kerala’s response to Hema Committee report shows public opinion has changed radically in 5 yrs

Five years ago, the Women in Cinema Collective was lampooned by fellow actors and the public at large for demanding basic rights. Now, people have no tolerance for male chauvinism.

Malayalam cinema is a Boys’ Club. Its progressive tag coming apart with Hema Committee report

The inequality within the Malayalam film industry is pervasive. It extends to junior artists and crew. Men and women who don’t have the clout to fight back.

Hema panel report lays bare plight of women in Mollywood. ‘Demands for sex’, stranglehold of ‘power group’

Listing various concerns, Hema Committee report recommends setting up civil court-like tribunal to deal with serious issues faced by women employed in Malayalam film industry.

What is Hema Committee report on women in Malayalam film industry & why did HC stay its release

New Delhi: The Kerala High Court’s stay Wednesday on the release of the Justice K. Hema Committee Report posed a fresh setback to the years-long...

On Camera

Communism is based on self-deluding assumptions, it can’t be realised in practice: GN Lawande

It is the law of progress that a few persons must go to the top to show the possibilities and opportunities, so that others might emulate and follow them, wrote GN Lawande in 1958

Red carpet for industry honchos as AAP kicks off Punjab investors summit. Rs 10,000 cr pledged on Day 1

At 2nd such summit in Punjab for top investors organised by AAP since it came to power in Punjab, Lakshmi Mittal announced his Bathinda refinery has increased production of LPG by 3,000 tonnes/day.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.