MeToo accused Kevin Spacey is set to be charged with four counts of sexual assault and one charge of penetrative sex without consent in the UK, according to the Crown Prosecution Service.
Dalit activist Mrudula Devi, who earlier accused actor Vinayakan of verbal harassment, has now condemned the misogynistic remarks on #MeToo that he made during the press meet of Oruthee.
Actor Vinayakan, who predominantly works in Malayalam cinema, has been criticised for his misogynistic comments at a press meet organised by the team of the recently-released Malayalam film Oruthee, on Wednesday.
Filmmaker-poet Leena Manimekalai said that she felt unsafe and declared that if anything untoward were to happen to her, filmmaker Susi Ganesan who she accused of sexual harrasment, is to be blamed.
The Madras High Court observed on Wednesday that filmmaker-poet Leena Manimekalai’s passport could not be impounded on the mere basis of a criminal defamation case being pending against her. Justice M Dhandapani, who heard the case, further directed the Regional Passport Office in Chennai to release Leena’s passport.
Leena Manimekalai has finally received a favourable verdict in her passport impoundment case, one of the legal battles she has been fighting after naming filmmaker Susi Ganesan as her harasser during the #MeToo movement.
Filmmaker Leena Manimekalai, who moved the Madras High Court to quash her passport impoundment order, has to wait longer as the passport authorities who were supposed to file a counter affidavit on Thursday, failed to do so, Leena’s advocate Abudu Kumar Rajarathinam told Silverscreen India.
Filmmaker Leena Manimekalai, whose passport was recently impounded as part of the ongoing legal battle with filmmaker Susi Ganesan, whom she accused of sexual harassment, tweeted on Monday that Ganesan has now written to York University in Canada, where Leena is pursuing her filmmaking course, telling them to cancel her student visa.
The passport of Tamil filmmaker Leena Manimekalai’s who accused filmmaker Susi Ganesan of sexual harassment, has been impounded, Leena’s counsel V.S. Senthil Kumar confirmed to Silverscreen India on Friday.
Harvey Weinstein, the 69-year-old American film producer serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York state prison, has once again been indicted for a sexual assault charge that was dismissed by a Los Angeles judge one week ago, Deadline reported.
Harvey Weinstein, the 69-year-old American film producer serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York state prison for several sex crimes, pleaded not guilty to 11 counts of alleged sexual assault related to five women at a court in California on Wednesday, BBC reported.
Appearing before a Los Angeles courtroom in a wheelchair on Wednesday, Weinstein maintained his innocence saying all incidents related to the allegations were consensual.
Harvey Weinstein, the 69-year-old American film producer serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York state prison for sex crimes, will soon be extradited to face sexual assault charges in Los Angeles after a New York judge made a ruling to that effect on Tuesday, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Harvey Weinstein, the American film producer serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York state prison, filed an appeal on Monday on his conviction of rape and other sex crimes claiming that he did not receive a fair trial, CNBC reported.
Director P Virumandi, who is currently working on a Tamil biopic starring director and actor M Sasikumar, lashed out at this reporter when asked why he thought it was appropriate to collaborate with Vairamuthu, the lyricist who multiple women have accused of harassment.
Richa Chadha, the actor who is awaiting the release of her Hindi film Madam Chief Minister, spoke about working with the film’s director Subhash Kapoor, who was accused of sexual misconduct during the #MeToo movement, and said that she doesn’t believe in media trials.
MJ Akbar, former External Affairs Minister, on Tuesday made his final submission to a Delhi court, which is hearing the case of criminal defamation against senior journalist Priya Ramani, reported Bar and Bench.
After facing backlash over a recent comment on the #MeToo movement, actor Mukesh Khanna on Sunday posted a video on social media and stated: “I am not against women working”.
Singer Chinmayi Sripada on Tuesday took to Twitter to share an account of sexual harassment by lyricist Vairamuthu, adding to the number of cases of #MeToo movement in the Tamil film industry against the lyricist.
Harper Collins recently announced the release of its latest book, My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell. The novel talks about sexual abuse, but, covers a lot of grey areas since the book is told in flashback about a 32-year-old woman who is forced to revisit her first sexual relationship.
The piece mentioned a cast member of Sumukhi’s other show, Better Life Foundation, Utsav Chakraborty to highlight the fact that it is no longer streaming on Hotstar.It said, “Better Life Foundation has been pulled out of Hotstar following several #Metoo allegations against cast member Utsav Chakraborty”.
Singers Neha Bhasin, Sona Mahapatra and Shweta Pandit have come out against Sony Television’s move to reinstate Bollywood music composer Anu Malik, against whom there were multiple #MeToo allegations last year, as a judge on their reality show Indian Idol. In a series of tweets, the singers spoke about Malik’s predatory nature, and slammed the television industry for facilitating sexual harassers.
Neha Bhasin, in a tweet posted on October 30, accused Anu Malik of sexually harassing her fifteen years ago, when she was 21. “We do live in a very sexist world. Anu Malik is a predator. I too have run away from his strange moves when I was 21. I didn’t let myself get into a sticky situation beyond him lying on a sofa in front of me talking about my eyes in a studio. I fled lying,” wrote Bhasin on Twitter. “I fled lying my mum’s waiting below. He even messaged and called me after that to which I stopped responding. The point is I went to give him my CD and hoped for a chance at a song. He was older and shouldn’t have behaved the way he did.”
The men accused of sexual harassment and misconduct in the Indian #MeToo movement, especially in the entertainment space are back in prestigious big-ticket projects, even as the women continue to face backlash and boycott.It is not just that he was named in #MeToo but also that one of the most vocal voices of the Indian #MeToo movement and one of the women who came out in public against him, Chinmayi faced severe backlash for speaking up.
In the midst of all the excitement at the festival, Leena also made time to talk to Silverscreen about her new film Maadathy (which she conceived, researched, wrote, produced, directed and is now distributing), on raising funds on Facebook, fighting the good fight with the censor board, #MeToo and its effect on her well-being, and more…
The criminal defamation case filed by director Susi Ganesan against filmmaker Leena Manimekalai, who accused him of sexual harassment during the MeToo movement last year, will be heard tomorrow at 10 am at the Saidapet Magistrate Court in Chennai.
The film #MeToo, starring Irudhi Suttru fame Ritika Singh, has landed in trouble with the censor board. Directed by the US-based debutant filmmaker Harsh Vardhan, the movie was completed seven months ago but is yet to gain a clearance from the board.