Actress Sri Reddy strips in public alleging sexual exploitation in Telugu film industry, taken into police custody

Telugu actress Sri Reddy aka Srilekha Mallidi did the unthinkable. As a protest against Movie Artists Association (MAA) for not giving her a membership in their body, Sri Reddy strips in public on Saturday morning.

Sri Reddy in a plain churidhar, who arrived at MAA office on Saturday morning invited a TV channel and rendered herself to innerwear. However, she wasted no time to remove her top wear and started accusing both Movie Artists Association and Producers Association for not giving her membership despite the fact that she acted in many movies and also produced three films.

"For how long they will delay membership to me? Now that a girl has removed her clothes and stood on the road, will those people feel ashamed for their acts? What if they don't give her membership even now? Next time, I will once again go cloth-less in a similar fashion until they give me a membership. When the whole of actors in the industry reacted strongly when a newsreader called heroines as w****s, why don't they react when some people really turned us into call girls?", Sri Reddy stated.

Sri Reddy was later taken to a police station. "She was there to lodge her protest. We told her to protest in a democratic way and not resort to such acts. She has not given any complaints regarding her allegations to police till now,” said a police officer.