Maami on the vulnerability of the ‘beautiful women’, moviegoers  ‘fantasise on screen as goddesses’:

A cacophony involving a small- time actress, has allegedly accused  many senior  actresses of Tamil cinema of running brothels has erupted in Chennai. This “confession” was published in the newspaper carrying photographs of the actresses without verifying or seeking their opinion. Afterall actresses are “immoral” and their reputation will not suffer than public opinion that has already marked them as fallen women.

Many of the actresses are livid and offended; the influential film stars have got the person who wrote the piece arrested; the local Chennai press is crying that its voice is being muzzled. Would the newspaper have published the names and photographs of actors or say politicians for running a sex racket going by allegations in a police lock up confession that was leaked to a journalist? The answer is surely no. Since these were actresses who by an unspoken definition is a prostitute for them, it seemed OK to run with the story in print.