Up to date on: Nov 29, 2025 12:03 pm IST
Speaking to the press, Mallika Sukumaran has claimed that her son, Prithviraj Sukumaran, is being targetted on function. Here is what she stated.
Actor-filmmaker Prithviraj Sukumaran’s mom, Mallika Sukumaran, has claimed that her son is the goal of a cyber assault with the goal of ‘eliminating’ him from the movie business. Speaking to Manorama On-line, Mallika additionally claimed that not one of the movie organisations are stepping in to assist her son when he’s being focused. Right here’s what she stated.
Mallika says son Prithviraj is being focused in cyber assaults
After Prithviraj’s movie Vilaayath Budha was launched in theatres on November 21, Mallika claims that her son and the movie have been each focused on-line. She claimed that these throughout the movie business try to destroy her son.
She instructed them, “When there may be an assault on Prithviraj, there are only some organisations or people who converse out towards it. They’re blatantly abusing him on-line, largely focusing on solely him. Prithvi is their important goal. If you happen to ask organisations about it, no person has any solutions. The try is to get rid of Prithviraj as an actor from the business, and people within the Malayalam movie business are those doing it. They’re additionally sad with actor Thilakan’s son, Shammi Thilakan, making an upward rise in Malayalam cinema.”
Mallika said that movie organisations, such because the Affiliation of Malayalam Film Artists (AMMA), ought to take a stand towards such assaults. She additionally claimed to have collected the IDs of the people who carried out the cyberattack, urging the movie business to assist her son.
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Prithviraj started 2025 by moving into controversy as a result of Mohanlal-starrer L2 Empuraan, which he directed and starred in. The movie had scenes depicting the Gujarat riots that needed to be eliminated or altered after its launch. Nonetheless, the movie grew to become the second-highest-grosser of Malayalam cinema. He additionally starred within the Hindi Netflix movie Sarzameen. In Vilaayath Budha, he performed a sandalwood smuggler named Double Mohanan. Prithviraj has quite a few movies lined up, together with I No one, Khalifa and Santhosh Trophy in Malayalam, Daayra in Hindi and Varanasi in Telugu.
