Malayam actresses Grace Antony and Saniya Iyappan were molested and sexually harassed in public while they were touring Kerala to promote their upcoming film “Saturday night”. The incident came to light after a video of the actress slapping a fan in the crowd went in viral in social media platforms. The actresses came up with clarifications in their respective social media handles.

 

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On Tuesday, the two actresses went to Hilite mall located in Kozhikode to promote their upcoming film. While they were leaving the venue, the crowd became unruly thus creating a stampede-like situation. While the actresses were being escorted through the crowd, they reportedly got molested by unknown persons.

In a video which went viral, Saniya Iyappan was seen slapping a guy after she witnessed him misbehaving with them. Soon after the video wen viral, both the actesses addressed it in their social media handles.

Watch the video below :

“So l and my movie team were promoting our new movie” Saturday night ” at a mall in Calicut. The promotion events went well across all the places in Calicut and thanks to the love from the people of Calicut .The event at the mall was extremely packed with people and the security was struggling to handle and maintain the crowd” Saniya Iyappan said in her post.

“After the event, I and one of my costar were leaving and some guy misbehaved with my
colleague, and she didn’t even get a chance to see or react because of the rush and the crowd. After that, I also encountered a similar act of misogyny and I reacted to it in shock as you’ve watched in the video. So I wish no one has to face this kind of unwanted trauma in their life, for violence against women there will be consequences and actions against these misogynistic individuals” she added.

Here’s her post :

 

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“I had a chilling experience while promoting my new movie at Kozhikode, Hilite Mall. It is a place that I love. But while we were returning after the program, a person who was standing in the crowd grabbed me” Grace Antony said in her post.

 

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