For years, the dark side of Indian cinema was an open secret – stories of sexual harassment and the casting couch, where women were expected to offer sexual favors to get roles, were whispered but never spoken out loud. But everything changed in 2017 when a brave actress in Kerala’s Malayalam film industry, known as Mollywood, decided to expose these ugly truths, setting off a chain reaction that would shake the entire industry.

The Incident that Changed Everything

In February 2017, a...