Actor Mohanlal has lashed out at moral policing in the State. In a post on his official blog (www.thecompleteactor.
com) on Friday, he has sharply criticised the Malayali’s attitude towards relations between men and women. The reference is to the incident here last month when a group of persons attacked a restaurant following a news report on a TV channel which claimed that the restaurant encouraged immoral activities. The incident led to the ‘Kiss of Love’ protest in Kochi, when those who believed in the freedom of individuals came out against moral policing.
Mohanlal writes that he was in Kochi at that time. “I do not think you would find in another Indian city such a strike — a strike just to demand the right to kiss someone you love in a public space,” says the actor. “What kind of atrocities are Malayalis committing in the name of morality? We destroy restaurants, kill a man after tying him to a tree, and employ goons to separate lovers.” In the post, (there were more than 11,000 likes and 1,500 shares at the time of filing this report), he writes, “the people of a State that prides on being fully literate becoming perverse moral police is shameful,” he says. “We have the right to kiss. We also have the right not to kiss. But we have no right to tell someone that they should not kiss,” he says.
