Sexual harassment at work is complex and highly subjective.

Unwelcome sexual behavior, hazards the life of young women in the film world.

Film industry has now become a minefield for sexual harassment of young women. The foremen having control over his workers demands sexual favor in returning for granting them official favors or else they are either not given the job or removed from the job. These make village belles and women from hapless families to accept this unwelcome sexually determined behavior.

At Koyambedu, Chennai’s main terminal, starry-eyed young girls arrive daily from distant small towns with hopes of becoming movie stars. They come from all over Tamil Nadu and from other neighbouring states. Their destination is 6 km away at Kodambakam, the hub of Tamil cinema. The untold, inside story of Kodambakkam is the plight of hundreds of women who failed to get their big break and fall into their male colleagues’ ‘sex-trap’ in order to get regular work.

“Having to work mostly with male counterparts, we are forced to put up with the groping hands of make-up men and costumers. Freshers need to please them first if they want to get regular work.” says Vani, a junior artiste.

Researches prove that Women with casual jobs are up to 10 times more likely experience unwanted sexual advances. Sexual Harassment affects all women in the industry in some form or the other. These grievous committed by acquaintances or men in positions of institutional power leads to the increase in the rate of suicides and loss of jobs by young women.

Sexual Harassment of women at work place within the industry is an extension of violence in everyday life and is discriminatory, thriving in atmosphere of threat. 

Actress Revathi says "The industry has to strongly address the issue of alleged sexual harassment of junior artistes. There should be a counseling cell for women to register their complaints”

The survey of the Gender Study Group shows that most women felt disgusted, insulted and scared by any sort of harassment hence such sensitive issues has to be systematically tackled.