A journalist, who is close to the actress, talks about the little known qualities of her that helped her trump attackers after two long hours of agony in a moving car.
I have known her since she started her acting career. I know her parents and other family members too. She has faced life head on. That is the only reason she could survive the attack from four or five thugs. Anyone else would have fallen by the wayside.
The day her father died, she said: “If I stumble now, my mother will not be able to cope. So I have to put up a bold face.”
She stood like a rock behind a colleague in her hour of crisis even when close friends shied away. She had to forego many opportunities to work after that but she never regretted it.
The news of the attack on her was shocking. I felt like one of my family members was targeted. More painful were the questions asked by a few people.
The people who sought to defame her on social media were no better than the goons who barged into her car and took her photos. The abductors will be caught eventually but those who defamed her will remain scot-free. They are more criminal and they will continue stalking other girls. I have been faced with many unsettling questions in the last three days. I have been faced with many unsettling questions in the last three days.
Don’t you think there is something going on between her and ‘Pulsar’ Suni?
Why would she let them get into the car if she didn’t know them?
Why did she travel alone in a car at night?
Some of the people who posed these questions really shocked me because I never thought they were capable of thoughts like these.
You know nothing about that girl. You would have never asked such questions had you known her.
She is one of the Malayalam actors who had made it big in other south Indian industries. Yet she led an ordinary life. Any gazetted government officer can build a house like she did. Her family also leads a simple life. Her mother had never gone anywhere introducing herself as a celebrity mother. She always introduces her as the wife of a late photographer.
The girl has an amazing collection of books and movies and talks excitedly about them. She can be found scouting for books in airports and large malls. She is happier in a book shop than in a beauty parlor. How many actors in Malayalam movies can boast of a genuine friendship?
This girl could travel unaccompanied at night from Thrissur to Ernakulam even 15 years ago. She gained that confidence with the strength of her character. She does not belong to a generation of actors who are ready to humor directors and script writers for a role in the next project. She had made up her mind years ago that she would rely only on her talent to come up in life. She had the same conviction even when the family depended on the modest earnings of her parents.
Most of her inquisitors on social media would tremble at the mere sight of violence. They should remember that they are questioning someone who tried to fight off the goons trying to dominate her in a moving car. You have to bow before her courage. Her tormentors had to leave after an hour of futile struggle. Did they really need an hour to click photographs of a helpless girl?
She could withstand the horror only because of her strong will power. She overcame the desperate situation and boldly went to the police.
She stands out in a crowd of cowards. If anyone still questions her integrity, there is only one answer: You do not know anything about her. Her existence is beyond anything you can imagine.
Be proud that people like her live among us. Bow before her, even if you are older than her.
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