Malayalam filmmaker Sanal Kumar Sasidharan booked for harassment over feminine star’s criticism
Jan 28, 2025 01:05 PM IST
Filmmaker Sanal Kumar Sasidharan posted a replica of the criticism on social media and responded to the allegations.
Malayalam filmmaker Sanal Kumar Sasidharan has been booked for harassing a outstanding feminine actor on-line primarily based on a criticism filed by her. A case has been registered towards him on the Elamakkara Police Station in Kochi for alleged stalking, legal intimidation and defamation. (Additionally Learn: Mohanlal calls L2 Empuraan director Prithviraj Sukumaran ‘merciless’ as a result of he ‘extracts what he needs’ from actors)
Sanal Kumar Sasidharan booked for harassment
Police informed PTI on Tuesday that Sanal has been booked on prices of harassing a outstanding actor on a social media platform. Elamakkara police registered a case towards him beneath varied sections. The criticism towards him was lodged on Monday after Sanal, in a latest Fb put up, claimed that the lives of the actor and her daughter have been beneath menace.
Sanal posted a replica of the FIR registered towards him on his Fb and Instagram, claiming that another person had filed the criticism towards him within the actor’s identify. Based on Matrubhumi, the actor additionally accused Sanal of releasing audio conversations in her identify. A lookout discover will reportedly be issued towards the filmmaker as he’s within the US. Kochi police have contacted the Indian embassy there.
Earlier historical past with feminine actor
Sanal was arrested and launched on bail in Could 2022 primarily based on a criticism by the identical actor over allegations of blackmail and maligning her popularity on-line. Again then, Sanal had visited a temple in his hometown, Parassala, along with his family members when the arrest came about. When police wearing plain garments reportedly tried to take him into custody, the director went LIVE on Fb claiming that he was being ‘kidnapped’ and that he had no religion within the system.
Sanal is thought for helming movies like S Durga, beforehand titled Horny Durga, which obtained the Hivos Tiger Award on the Worldwide Movie Competition Rotterdam 2017. His final directorial was the 2022 movie Vazhakku with Tovino Thomas, which additionally confronted controversy resulting from a feud between the director and actor.
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