THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Unnerved by means of an avalanche of criticism, ONV Cultural Academy led by filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan has chosen to examine the academy choice to honor Tamil poet and hot lyricist Vairamuthu using the calendar year’s esteemed ONV award.
Since the award invoice, criticism was pouring in from many quarters, so questioning the reason for honouring Vairamuthu from whom many girls had increased sexual harassment allegations before.
“After the recommendation of the award jury, the ONV Cultural Academy has chosen to examine the choice to show the award into Vairamuthu,” stated a 1 sentence communicating delivered from Adoor Gopalakrishnan on Friday.
Adoor had originally played down the criticism saying that the ONV Award for his inventive participation and the exact same shouldn’t be viewed as a certification for’good behavior’.
Members of the Women in Cinema Collective (WCC) in Malayalam theatre were to come out with criticism against the prosecution choice.
Actresses Parvathy, Rima Kallingal, manager Anjali Menon, director-actress Geethu Mohandas chose to interpersonal websites, terming that the academy conclusion unacceptable.
The critics are of the opinion that Vairamuthubeing an individual accused by 17 girls of sexual harassment should not be honoured with the award at the title of Malayalam’s biggest literary figure.
The award includes honoured senior Malayalam literary characters such as Sugatha Kumari, MT Vasudevan Nair and Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri.
The award includes citation, a plaque and a cash prize of Rs 3 lakh.
Vairamuthu has received seven national awards for his movie songs.
He’s also a receiver of Padmasri and Padmabhushan wards.
Three Indian colleges have given him with honorary doctorates.
Upon the announcement of this award, the Vairamuthu vairamuthu explained: I’m honoured to receive the esteemed ONV Award.
This award from Kerala, the property that I tremendously admire because of its amazing literature, provides me immense joy.
I view this as a crown put on Tamil with its sister speech.