Association of Malayalam Film Artists (AMMA), an affiliation of Malayalam actors, often grabs headlines for 2 causes – one for the tea events adorned with shining stars that they maintain within the title of annual common conferences and the opposite for the controversies they face. Including his reasonable angle in direction of Dileep, who was the eighth accused in a sexual assault case involving a preferred actress. In the latter subject, a number of younger feminine actors got here out brazenly towards AMMA’s stand on the sexual harassment case. The protest began by actor Reema Kalingal, Parvati And Padmapriya towards AMMA uncovered the poisonous patriarchal tradition within the affiliation, which additionally resulted in a girls’s group referred to as the Women in Cinema Collective. Since then, Amma has been pressured to stick to norms created by the general public and media to be extra democratic, gender delicate and to guard girls within the office.
Following the AMMA’s choice to reinstate Dileep into the affiliation following its preliminary choice to expel the accused actor, the undemocratic functioning of the affiliation was closely criticized. The lack of a correct electoral system to find out the governing members of the union was a serious explanation for concern since its formation in 1997. After rising stress from the media, Innocent resigned from the publish of president after being on this place for 17 years and handed over the accountability to Mohanlal. In 2018 a widely known election was held through which each publish was crammed with out opposition from the nominated members by members like Mohanlal, Adavela Babu, Innocent, KB Ganeshkumar Siddiqui, Mukesh and many others. Actor Parvati was reportedly denied permission to contest within the 2018 election and her nomination was rejected by the then governing physique citing a motive for the affiliation’s bye-law.
Again in 2021, Mohanlal, Edavela Babu, Siddiqui and Jayasuriya have been elected with none opposition earlier this month to the posts of president, common secretary, treasurer and joint secretary respectively. However, the one necessary publish he needed to obtain was the publish of Vice President for which actors Maniyan Pilla Raju, Shweta Menon and Asha Sharath had contested. While Maniyan Pila and Shweta Menon have been elected, Asha Sharath was defeated within the election, the place 316 AMMA members solid their vote for the primary time.
Mohanlal reportedly campaigned for Shweta Menon and Asha Sharath regardless of being pals with Manian Pila.
Baburaj, Lal, Leena, Manju Pillai, Rachna Narayankutty, Sudhir Karmana, Surbhi Lakshmi, Tiny Tom, Tovino Thomas, Unni Mukundan and Vijay Babu have been elected to the manager committee of AMMA. Nivin Pauly, Honey Rose and Nasser Latif, who contested for the Executive Committee, did not garner sufficient votes.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
