The Women in Cinema Collective (WCC), the association which has mobilised dissent against anti-women practices in the Malayalam film industry, has extended support to Nisha. Nisha has found support on social media from fans of the popular television series. “I’m not willing to go back to the set unless the director is moved out or the channel assures me in writing that such harassment won’t happen again,” she said. She alleged that in the series’ latest episodes, the director showed her character – Neelima – in a bad light.
Nisha has been kept away from the series’ shoot since she returned from the US. The actor said she was coming out with the charges now because she was being wrongly projected as unprofessional. The Kerala Women’s Commission has backed Nisha and assured her assistance. Nisha said some of her co-artistes on the show were aware of the harassment and had also questioned the director. Nisha, a divorcee with two children, said the snubbed director had also turned vindictive and spread baseless rumours that she was in a live-in relationship. I suffered a lot because I had to be in the show I had to get my daughter married,” she said. I complained to the channel authorities and he was warned but there was no change in his attitude. I expressed my displeasure but he kept coming back. “I had resisted his moves earlier – he has tried to touch me, has used bad words and sent offensive texts.
While the director claimed that Nisha was taken off the show because she left to attend an award ceremony in the United States without informing him, the actor said she had received permission of the TV channel’s Managing Director, by mail, and the director himself had okayed her trip. She alleged that the director’s decision was an extension of harassment she had to suffer for about three years. Nisha Sarang who plays the female lead in the sitcom Uppum Mulakum said in a television interview that she was being kept away from the show by the director, R Unnikrishnan.
Anyway the audience is happy with this comeback.Joining voices that call for gender justice in the entertainment industry, an actor in a popular Malayalam television series has raised allegations of sexual and mental harassment by the director of the show. Now, as the series begins, many questions come to the minds of the audience on these topics. But later, no official explanation was released from the channel. Nisha had made it clear that the series would only continue if the director was changed or the management and director assured that the director would not be mentally abused. At the time, Nisha had said that the director was mentally abusing her and was trying to create unnecessary problems.
Nisha had mentioned the name of salt and pepper director R Unnikrishnan in deciding to stay away from the series. This is what the audience is asking when they start again now.Īlso Read: Ananya in Family Lantern Celebrating Beloved’s Birthday Fans waiting for the star to return, sharing a family photo The news that Nisha Sarang, who came in blue in the series, is leaving the series has been the talk of the town for a while. But with the joy of sharing the return on social media, some questions have been raised. Now Balu, Neelu, Mudiyan, Lachu, Shivani, Keshu and Paru are all back. The program, which was aired on the Flowers channel, was recently stopped. The success of Salt and Pepper was due to its interesting presentation of natural developments within a family. But now the series has started again with Patharamat. The news that the stars were leaving the series and that the series was finally stopped caused a great deal of frustration among the audience.
Needless to say, the television series Salt and Pepper was a hit with audiences.