AMMA election: Stars face off as high-stakes battle looms in Malayalam actors physique

A eager battle is on the playing cards within the election to the manager committee of the Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes (AMMA) to be held in Kochi, Kerala, on Friday (August 15, 2025).

The end result of the election will resolve whether or not the affiliation, registered beneath the Travancore Cochin Literary, Scientific and Charitable Societies Act in 1994, could have its first lady president and basic secretary.

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Shwetha Menon is taking up senior actor Devan within the race for the highest submit, whereas Kukku Parameswaran faces Raveendran for the submit of basic secretary.

The battle for the important thing posts within the 17-member government committee is being watched carefully after a sequence of incidents that had all the weather of a potboiler. Both Shwetha Menon and Kukku Parameswaran had hit the headlines after that they had filed their nominations.

The Ernakulam Central Police had registered a primary info report (FIR) towards Shwetha Menon beneath Section 67 A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 on expenses of creating monetary features via her roles in films having alleged vulgar and obscene content material. The Kerala High Court later stayed the prison proceedings initiated towards her.

A bit of the actors had alleged that Kukku Parameswaran was in possession of a ‘reminiscence card’ that contained the revelations made by a couple of lady actors in 2018 after the formation of the Ok. Hema Committee by the Kerala authorities to review the issues confronted by girls within the Malayalam movie trade. She had rejected the allegations and lodged a police criticism alleging defamation.

Besides the lively faces within the trade, the voters’ checklist within the 507-member affiliation embrace senior actor Kamal Haasan, who obtained the honorary membership of AMMA in 2024, and actors Tabu, Abbas, Thalaivasal Vijay, Napolean, Vasundhara Das to call a couple of.

Actor-turned-MLAs, together with Mani C. Kappan, Ok.B. Ganesh Kumar, and M. Mukesh, are members of the affiliation. Veteran actors Madhu and Sheela additionally determine within the checklist.

The election was necessitated after the earlier committee led by Mohanlal resigned in August 2024 following allegations of sexual harassment towards a few of its members after the discharge of the Hema Committee report.