Already mired in a controversy for his derogatory remarks against women journos in which the Madras High Court awarded him one month jail term, popular Tamil film actor and comedian S.Ve.Shekhar has found himself involved in yet another fresh row for a similar offence–making unsavoury remarks against a woman journo.
His act at a drama event in the city triggered condemnations from media organisations, which demanded slapping of fresh cases against him and punish him for not mending his ways even after being admonished and convicted by the court.
The fresh row surfaced when the actor, during a play recently he was performing at the Narada Gana Sabha , a point where several carnatic vocal and music concerts, stage plays and dramas
will be held, had allegedly asked a female journo, who came to interview him, to sit on his lap after she asked for a seat, which formed part of a scene in the play.
One of the scenes in the play in which Shekhar donned the role of a politician, a female journo came to interview him.
When he asked him to sit, she found there were no chairs around and asked him where to sit as there was no space.
To this,Shekhar had allegedly pointed to his lap and asked her to sit on it.
Further making the matters worse, he said “these journos are always arrogant. There is so much space here (pointing to his lap again), to which the journo said there is no space”.