Shine Tom Chacko case: Kerala Movie Chamber of Commerce-led monitoring committee to resolve on actor’s grievance

Shine Tom Chacko
| Photograph Credit score: THULASI KAKKAT

An emergency assembly of the monitoring committee led by the Kerala Movie Chamber of Commerce (KFCC) to deal with complaints associated to office harassment of girls within the Malayalam movie business will likely be held right here on Monday (April 21, 2025) to resolve on the allegations of suspected drug use and misbehaviour raised by actor Vincy Aloshious in opposition to her co-star Shine Tom Chacko on a movie set.

The problem snowballed into an issue after Ms. Aloshious had in a video posted on her social media pages accused a male co-star of misbehaving together with her after approaching her on the pretext of serving to her.

She had filed a grievance earlier than the KFCC, Affiliation of Malayalam Film Artistes (AMMA) and the Inner Complaints Committee (ICC) of the film. Although she didn’t disclose the identification of her co-star and the title of the film, a suspected leak of her grievance had revealed that she had raised the complaints of misbehaviour and suspected drug use in opposition to Mr. Chacko on the situation of the film Soothravakyam.

Saji Nanthiyattu, common secretary of KFCC, stated on Friday that the emergency assembly of the 29-member monitoring committee will likely be held at 3 p.m on April 21 to debate the grievance lodged by the actor.

The committee, he stated, was fashioned based mostly on the advice of the Kerala State Girls’s Fee after the Kerala Excessive Courtroom directed the movie manufacturing homes to type an inside complaints committee as per the Sexual Harassment of Girls at Office (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 (PoSH Act). The court docket had issued the directive based mostly on a petition filed by the Girls in Cinema Collective.

The committee included 27 members representing varied movie our bodies and two members of the Kerala State Girls’s Fee. Mr. Nanthiyattu stated that stringent motion will likely be initiated in opposition to complaints of drug abuse and harassment on movie places.

AMMA begins probe

The three-member committee appointed by the ad-hoc committee of the AMMA to probe the grievance lodged by the actor will despatched a discover to Mr. Chacko searching for his response to the allegations. The committee, comprising Sarayu Mohan, Ansiba Hassan, and Vinu Mohan, has sought the small print of the incident from these related to the film Soothravakyam.

Although Ms. Aloshious will not be a member of the actors’ physique, she was informed by the movie our bodies to file the grievance earlier than it as Mr. Chacko is its member. The ad-hoc committee has not set a timeframe for the three-member committee to submit its report, it’s learnt.