Kerala Story - cocaine raid- woes of Honorary Lt. Colonel Mohanlal

The week ending today for Kerala entertainment media is a failed excise raid on a film director , a complaint by an ex contestant of Bigg Boss with a National Women’s Commission and a ` fake’ love story of a Wushu champion with an Indian Army woman commando. Two actors have been named as drug addicts by Producers Association and as they play truant with shooting schedules, producers are advised to not take them for their films. Producers and Actor’s association claims that they have a list of those who are drug addicts. In a knee jerk reaction Kochi Police Commissioner said that shadow police would be posted at film shooting sites. Now this week Najeem who is directing a web series for Hotstar and camping in Wyanad found his room invaded by excise sleuths and after two hour search, they went back empty handed. Now FEFKA the technician trade body has gone to town asking excise minister to take action on the person who gave the wrong tipoff. The question that arises is why did the excise not take action on people named in the list of names collected by Producers and Actor;s body and instead on a director who never figured in the list ?, Actor Rini Tom who is called as excise brand Ambassador and said that his son was dissuaded from entering films as it was filled with drug addicts was staying in the same hotel in Wyanad for a Joshi film and had vacated a day before the raid. Did Rini tip off the excise? B Unnikrishnan of FEFKA says they will not allow shadow police on sets or location as they would hinder smooth functioning. If they are identified as policemen , then why call them shadow police ?. Film director Shantivila Dinesh in his YouTube channel says that years back the same Najeem’s story was used by director Harikumar and took the credit for it and also pocketed a State award.

This season 5 of Malayalam BiggBoss was in first few weeks termed as most disappointing. Audience did not get any fireworks. Now it started picking up with abusive language usage increase and a contestant lifting his lungi to show his underwear. Now a contestant made sex jokes about an ex-contestant Shruthi and she had filed a complaint with NCW and asked Asianet channel to take action. Another contestant Aniyan Mithun a Wushu martial art champion who calls him Arabaikadalinitne Simham ( Lion of Arabian sea, a tag line of a flop Mohanlal film Marikkar) said that in Punjab , a woman commando was in love with him and she took him to her barracks and he saw guns and weapons like latest guns. He was given a uniform and taken to the border areas by her. One day he found her dead and covered in national flag. She died with a bullet shot that went between her eyes. Aniyan rolled on her coffin and wept. It had the contestants in tears and a film director inside wanted to make a film on this. Social media erupted with Malayalee soldiers and even officer debunking this story. There are no woman commandos in Indian Army and those woman in combat duty are pilots in Airforce and Naval air force. Major Ravi who has directed many war films says that Aniyan will face an inquiry by Military. Mohanlal took Aniyan to task as he said has been Honorary Lt, Colonel for 15 years. Aniyan sticks to his story. The guy who made the sex jokes said sorry and he has been let off. As Lal said the idea is to give everyone a chance to win and not lose. He several times kept saying it was not his decision but Bigg Boss. In short if it helps the TRP, then what is the harm.