Actress Rima Kallingal says that it is unbelievable that there has never been a place in a state like Kerala for so long to tell women about any kind of bad experience in the film industry. “The internal committee is very easy to implement and we have been doing this for a long time,” Rima said. The response was at an open forum held in Kochi as part of the Regional IFFK.
‘When we started discussing the concept of the internal committee, we formed an IC in the movie Virus and implemented it. This is one of the easiest things to do. You need to find exactly three people. One of them must be an activist, a woman, someone who knows the legal aspects, an adult. All we need is the mentality that when we bring a workplace together, when we bring a lot of people into a film production space, that place should be spotless. I do not want to limit it to sexual violence. It is unbelievable that in a state like Kerala, there was no place to say bad experience. We should have done this long ago.
If you take a picture of a movie set, you will see only one or two women in it. That is why the WCC is putting pressure on all workers in the sector to demand IC, even though the Vaishakh Internal Committee has made guidelines giving them more prominence. All unions must take action to find out exactly what sexual harassment is in the workplace.
The guidelines prepared by Vaishakh clearly state that comments coming from the side of the set while working and talking in such a way that there is a possibility of not getting a job fall into the same category. All unions must subscribe and join, as well as be responsible for providing guidance and knowledge against violence, ”said Rima Kallingal.