The Casting Couch: Indian cinema’s women are fighting sexual harassment and unequal pay

The Indian film world’s predators are getting their comeuppance thanks to a survivor’s persistence and the delayed results of an official probe

In 2017, popular TV anchor Johnny Luckose asked Mohanlal, superstar of south India’s ‘Mollywood’ (the nickname for the Malayalam film industry, located in Kerala), about the top gossip of the day: that the actor had celebrated after sleeping with his 3,000th woman. Mohanlal sarcastically brushed it off, saying the number was more.