“The moment I got to know that this scene… obviously any girl will have a bit of hesitation to go through such an ordeal even if it is acting,” she said. She recalled that director had stationed the other crew members at a distance while they shot the scene inside the room. The whole episode in the film takes place in a dimly lit room. “He said that for him my comfort level was utmost important and it will be shot with minimal crew, comprising just a cameraman and required actors,” she said. Director Ameer Sultan told Priyamani about the rape scene a day before the actual shoot and assured her that her comfort won’t be compromised. Actors were given scripts of that day’s shoot on a daily basis and on the sets. She said that she did not know about the rape scene, when she began working on the film. Talking to, Priyamani explained how thoughtful and considerate was her director while filming this disturbing scene. Muththazhagu gets brutally gang-rapped by four men and succumbs to the pain and injury she suffered during the attack. The film’s climax scene turned this romantic drama into a gut-wrenching tragedy. Her Muththazhagu character from 2007 blockbuster Paruthiveeran is one of the landmarks in her acting career. We had a chat with actor Priyamani and sought her experience of acting in a disturbing scene in one of her films. Now the media are dubbing these famous ‘love scenes’ as rape and molestation of actors involved. Actors don’t get paid to be humiliated or to be taken advantage of. Filmmakers must take the female actors into confidence and their consensus, irrespective of how small or big a scene is. Whatever creative explanation can these directors come up with, what happened to the female actors of Anjana Safar and Last Tango in Paris is not acceptable. Read: When a 15- year-old Rekha was allegedly molested by actor Biswajeet