Supreme Court stays all legal proceedings against actress Priya Varrier for ‘wink song’

Supreme Court stays all legal proceedings against actress Priya Varrier for ‘wink song’

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The Supreme Court (SC) at this time stayed all legal proceedings against teenage actress Priya Varrier for the ‘wink song’, which some Muslim groups claim has offended sentiments.

On Tuesday, the SC agreed to an urgent hearing of a petition by the teenage Malayalam actress who’s looking for the quashing of FIRs lodged against her and movie makers for a music that some groups really feel offends the spiritual sentiments of Muslims.

The actress who gained tens of millions of hearts with her expressions in the track ‘Manikya Malaraya Poovi’ in the yet to be completed Malayalam movie ‘ Oru Adaar Love ‘, moved the Supreme Court on Monday.

In the10 days since its launch on social media platforms, the ‘wink’ track – as it’s being referred – notched up a record 3.4 crore views. But quickly, it changed into a nightmare because the 18-year-old B.Com scholar found an FIR lodged against her and the filmmakers at Falaknuma police station in Hyderabad. The FIR alleged that the song had harmed the religious sentiments of Muslims.

 Two extra FIRs – one by the secretary of Raza Academy with Mumbai Police and one other by Janjagran Samithi at Jinsi police station in Maharashtra’s Aurangabad – compelled Priya Prakash Varrier, director Omar Abdul Wahab and producer Joseph Valakuzhy Eapen to move the SC through advocate Beeran. They invoked artists’ fundamental right to speech and expression and sought quashing of the FIRs.