Actress Aparna Balamurali became popular because of her stunning performance in Aakasam Nee Haddura (Soorarai Pottru). These days she is busy promoting her upcoming Malayalam film, Thankam.
As part of the promotions, Aparna attended a college event in Kerala. A student got on the stage during the event and behaved inappropriately with her.
A video from this event is making rounds on social media. The video shows that without permission from the organizers, a student comes on stage and presents flowers to Aparna, who is taken aback.
The student then requests her to pose with him and proceeds to put his hands around her shoulder. Aparna became uncomfortable and immediately asked him to step away. In the video, hooting by other students can also be heard.
Netizens were angry and slammed the event organizers and the film’s team for such poor management. One of the social media users wrote, “How can a college student misbehave with an actress? What the hell was the film crew doing there?”
Another one wrote, “There are social conventions to be observed in public so that incidents like this do not happen…… it’s happening much too often all over the country……our education authorities please take note.”
Later, the student apologized to the actress on stage for his inappropriate behavior and tried to shake hands with Aparna, who refused to extend her hand.
Meanwhile, poet-writer Sowmya Radha Vidyadhar wrote on her Facebook, “Touching a woman’s body without her permission. Expensive. Trying to touch her again in the name of an apology hand shake. Priceless.”
To which Aparna commented, “The best part- ‘Law college’ I was speechless!”
