Actor Parvathy has officially entered the entire chaos surrounding allegations levelled against the Women in Cinema Collective (WCC) by filmmaker Vidhu Vincent. In a long statement, the actress wrote, “I thought a lot whether or not to respond to these allegations for two reasons. First, some of the issues raised by Vidhu were pertaining to WCC as an organisation, and that needed to be addressed first, as the cause of this Collective and movement are of priority to me. Second are the other issues raised by Vidhu that are against individual members of WCC. I am going to address the ones raised against me.”
The actor explained the sequence of events in the run up to Vidhu's public outbursts. She said she had sort of gone incommunicado in 2018, steering clear of her work for some time. A few months later, during a meeting of WCC, Vidhu reminded Parvathy that she did not receive any response for her offer.
Parvathy responded, “When I was asked about this matter, I distinctly remember messaging Vidhu with profuse apologies explaining that I had been away and did not know anything about her project. She clarified that she had tried to contact me on Whatsapp; I requested her to resend the message.”
She added, “She did and it was a single message with a short one-paragraph synopsis of the film dated May 30, 2018. I apologised again and asked her if she would still consider me for the role. She was keen so we agreed to meet on the sets of Uyare. As a professional practice, I discourage script narrations on sets but I suggested this only because I did not want to delay her in any manner (sic)”.
She insists that she turned down the movie soon after hearing the first narration, however, reconsidered over Vidhu's insistence. After 10 days, she again responded with a no for the project. Parvathy said that until Vidhu's public outrage, she was under the assumption that she was on good terms with the filmmaker.
Vidhu Vincent has alleged that she felt humiliated after she did not even get a ‘no’ for an answer when she approached Parvathy for 'Stand Up'.
