Public anger is mounting after actor Gouri Kishan was forced to take on sexist remarks from journalists, with little help from her co-star or director, at a promotional press meet on November 6. “You are sexualising a female character. This is not journalism. What you are doing is a disgrace to your profession,” Gouri said.

Gouri, who was promoting her new film, Others , confronted a cinema reporter now identified as RS Karthik. The reporter provocatively asked the director, Abin Hariharan, about what he described as an “odd” pairing of lead actors, claiming they were both “disproportionate” to each other in height and weight. When called out, Karthik insisted he’d done nothing wrong and attempted to shout down Gouri.

Gouri promptly recalled that the same reporter had asked a simila

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