A eager battle is on the playing cards in the election to the chief committee of the Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes (AMMA) to be held in Kochi, Kerala, on Friday (August 15, 2025).
The final result of the election will resolve whether or not the affiliation, registered underneath the Travancore Cochin Literary, Scientific and Charitable Societies Act in 1994, can have its first girl president and common secretary.
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Shwetha Menon is taking over senior actor Devan in the race for the highest put up, whereas Kukku Parameswaran faces Raveendran for the put up of common secretary.
The battle for the important thing posts in the 17-member government committee is being watched carefully after a collection of incidents that had all the weather of a potboiler. Both Shwetha Menon and Kukku Parameswaran had hit the headlines after they’d filed their nominations.
The Ernakulam Central Police had registered a primary data report (FIR) towards Shwetha Menon underneath Section 67 A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 on costs of constructing monetary features by way of her roles in motion pictures having alleged vulgar and obscene content material. The Kerala High Court later stayed the prison proceedings initiated towards her.
A piece of the actors had alleged that Kukku Parameswaran was in possession of a ‘memory card’ that contained the revelations made by a couple of girl actors in 2018 after the formation of the Okay. Hema Committee by the Kerala authorities to check the issues confronted by girls in the Malayalam movie trade. She had rejected the allegations and lodged a police grievance alleging defamation.
Besides the energetic faces in the trade, the voters’ checklist in the 507-member affiliation embody senior actor Kamal Haasan, who obtained the honorary membership of AMMA in 2024, and actors Tabu, Abbas, Thalaivasal Vijay, Napolean, Vasundhara Das to call a couple of.
Actor-turned-MLAs, together with Mani C. Kappan, Okay.B. Ganesh Kumar, and M. Mukesh, are members of the affiliation. Veteran actors Madhu and Sheela additionally determine in the checklist.
The election was necessitated after the earlier committee led by Mohanlal resigned in August 2024 following allegations of sexual harassment towards a few of its members after the discharge of the Hema Committee report.
