"I Paid Heavy Price For MeToo Allegations": Singer Chinmayi Sripaada To NDTV

Chinmayi highlighted the difficulties survivors face in seeking justice, including loss of livelihood and challenges in proving sexual offences.

Celebrated singer Chinmayi Sripaada, a key face of the "MeToo" movement in India, has expressed hope that the Hema Committee Report's exposure of the dark underbelly of Kerala's film industry will encourage more women survivors of sexual violence to come forward and report it. "Siddique and Ranjith, who have resigned, are not the only two in the Kerala film industry facing allegations of sexual offences," she told NDTV in an exclusive interview. 

The Justice Hema Committee report -- providing sordid details of sexual abuse, systemic harassment, and a "criminal nexus" within Mollywood -- has opened a Pandora's box of more complaints against senior artistes and directors. 

Shortly after its contents were made public, director Ranjith Balakrishnan and actor Siddique, resigned from their positions in the Kerala Chalachitra Academy and Association of Malayalam Movie Artists (AMMA), amid allegations of misconduct.