Manju Patros is a well-known actor to Malayalis. Actress Nira is also present on social media. A video of Manju Patros speaking against body shaming in public is gaining attention. Manju’s words were correcting actor Binu Adimali who spoke in favor of body shaming, ‘I am a person who has received trolls like no other artist. I personally have one thing to say to my social media colleagues. Speaking for a bunch of artists like me. Many of these artists come from nothing. If they say something funny, it’s to make you, the audience, laugh,’ said Binu Adimali.
‘Every artist does every program and show with a lot of sadness inside. The main purpose of this is that if someone gets a smile because of us, let them get it. This is not about body shaming or hurting someone personally. So you social media brothers, don’t fry it thinking we said something unknowingly in some comedy. Because everyone is in great trouble,’ you know if you watch all the movies of the past. There was no incident of body shaming then. , Laletan and Srinivasan Chetan have told such jokes in how many movies. Personally they are not such people. This is a request to see it as just a joke for the story and the character,’ Binu said.
Later, Manju corrected Binu. ‘I am not interested in making this a discussion. But sitting in this audience, if I don’t say this, I’m only saying it because it’s a prick on my conscience. Binu Chetan said that they are all artists and are facing great difficulties. I am experiencing the same difficulties. From the time I can remember, many people have talked to me, making fun of my color and body, laughing and mocking, “I have not been able to enjoy this.” While others around me laugh and I pretend to laugh, I am not laughing inside. The mindset that I am inferior has been injected into me since then. If all that has hurt me, I have a community ahead of me as well. So when we tell such comedies, I have to consider the fellow beings around us,’ ‘My son is a little black. But he is not conscious of it. That’s good luck. But I have a grievance that my child will have to experience what I have experienced and that he is in such a dangerous society. I am an artist who thinks that at least one more generation should live without being ashamed of their color, skin and body parts. I have a strong opinion that we should show that responsibility wherever we go,’ ‘I say it from experience. I can’t enjoy such comedies. I mean artist and writer should show responsibility not to tell a joke if it will hurt someone. Such jokes are also creating an unhealthy generation,” ‘What we are experiencing now is what was said in the old movies. I feel that today’s people have descended into such a sense of inferiority because they had the freedom to say anything back then.
