Malayalam actor Mala Parvathi has come out swinging for Manju Warrier, calling filmmaker Sanal Kumar Sasidharan's claim that the actor is caught up in a sex racket nothing more than a rant with no basis. The pushback came in a lengthy Facebook post on Wednesday, as Sasidharan continued a protest outside the Kerala Secretariat demanding the release of the Hema Committee report.

According to Mala Parvathi, that demand for the report is a fair one. What isn't fair, she wrote, is Sasidharan using the same protest space to allege Warrier is part of a sex racket, a claim he's apparently repeated for close to seven years now under different banners.

Mala Parvathi says she's spoken to Warrier more than once about the matter. Her account: Warrier has a phone recording in which she confronted Sasidharan directly, after what Mala Parvathi describes as an advance that crossed a line, one Warrier and her brother later had to deal with. That recording, she says, has already been submitted to a court but hasn't been made public. Her quote from Warrier is specific. "I'm not releasing it because it doesn't suit my sense of propriety," Warrier reportedly told her. Mala Parvathi says she's now urging Warrier to put it out anyway, and soon.

The post also addresses an audio clip Sasidharan has been circulating, one he claims carries Warrier's voice, disguised, on what he says was an internet call. Listeners, per the post, mostly hear a woman speaking Tamil saying she can't do something. Mala Parvathi's response is blunt: Warrier reportedly wants to know who this Tamil-speaking woman actually is, and is said to have made the point while laughing it off rather than looking rattled by it.

Whether the claim bothers Warrier privately or not, Mala Parvathi argues the damage is bigger than one person's peace of mind. Search her name today, she writes, and Sasidharan's version of events crowds out everything Warrier has actually built over a long career. None of his claims, she adds, hold up to ordinary scrutiny.

Her post ends with something closer to a checklist than a complaint. She wants Sasidharan to hand the voice note over to cyber police and prove when and through which platform the recording was made. Even an internet call, she notes, leaves a trail that can be traced through a URL. She's listed out what she thinks investigators should ask for: account and profile details, registered mobile numbers and emails, login records, IP addresses and timestamps, device information, linked accounts, and any retained metadata connecting specific accounts to specific calls. A skilled filmmaker constructing an audio clip, she suggests, isn't out of the question.

Sasidharan hasn't responded publicly to Mala Parvathi's post yet. Whether he takes the recording to cyber police, and whether Warrier eventually releases her own version of that phone call, remains open. Neither claim has been independently verified, and nothing here has reached a court verdict.