Rose Venkatesan, has lodged a complaint with the police saying that director Senthil Kumar of Vaaimai and assistant director Seenu tried to murder her.
Transgender Rose, who started off as a television anchor with Ippadikku Rose on Vijay TV, visited the city police commissioner’s office to lodge a formal complaint about the attack. She stars in the film Vaaimai in the role of a transgender district collector. Senthil Kumar is directing the film.
In her complaint, Rose has said that “Two assistant directors of the film Vaaimai, chased, threatened, verbally, physically harassed, intimidated, shocked, blockaded me and banged my car, and force-opened my car door and tried to pull me out on Mount Road only for leaving the film set at about 7pm after the day call sheet of 9 am to 6 pm, when the director suddenly decided to extend the shoot till 10 pm without consulting me, as i had already agreed to attend a special invitee event of the US Consulate in Chennai to celebrate the US independence day at ITC Grand Chola.
“Although i informed the director Senthil of the film about my situation and left, he and his assistant director Seenu called me on the phone and verbally harassed me repeatedly as i was driving to ITC Grand Chola, causing me to be afraid and emotionally traumatized. Then suddenly on Mount Road near Anna Arivalayam at the 730 busy working day traffic, Seenu and the other assistant seen in the video started banging and pounding on my car and blocking my car resulting in huge traffic jam on Mount road. As i tried to escape and drive away, they followed me and blocked, tried to pull me out of the car and caused all sorts of harassment and intimidation. I was able to shoot only a small part of the continued harassment in this video. They finally got the call from the film team asking them to leave, probably because i called the manager and explained how abusive, disrespectful, intimidating, scary, dangerous, hurting the whole episode of nearly 20 minutes was. The guys left after threatening me again near Nandanam signal
“Somehow, I escaped the attack. I want proper action to be initiated against Senthil Kumar and his assistant Seenu,” the complaint concluded. A police team is being formed to investigate the case.
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