{"id":3707,"date":"2025-09-06T15:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T15:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/3707\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T15:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T15:16:08","slug":"mohanlal-breaks-silence-on-amma-exit-in-the-aftermath-of-hema-committee-after-one-year-suddenly-we-became-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/3707\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohanlal breaks silence on AMMA exit in the aftermath of Hema Committee after one year: \u2018Suddenly we became enemies\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Published on: Sept 06, 2025 01:10 pm IST <\/p>\n<p>    Mohanlal shocked many when he resigned as AMMA president in the aftermath of the Hema Committee report last year. He speaks about it for the first time.\u00a0     <\/p>\n<p>In August 2024, <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/mohanlal\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Mohanlal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mohanlal <\/a>shocked many when he resigned as the president of the Association of Malayalam Movie Artists (AMMA) in the aftermath of the Hema Committee report. The entire committee was dissolved amid criticism of AMMA and Mohanlal in particular, not doing much to protect artists against sexual abuse and exploitation. More than a year after the incident, in an <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.asianetnews.com\/entertainment\/mohanlal-opens-up-about-the-change-in-the-leadership-of-star-organization-amma-articleshow-pfbmfgk\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"backlink\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"interview\">interview<\/a> with Asianet News, the actor spoke up for the first time on why he made the move.<\/p>\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Mohanlal_AMMA_1757140617176_1757140617405.jpg\" alt=\"Malayalam film star Mohanlal talked about resigning as AMMA president amid criticism. (PTI)\" title=\"Malayalam film star Mohanlal talked about resigning as AMMA president amid criticism. (PTI)\"\/>   Malayalam film star Mohanlal talked about resigning as AMMA president amid criticism. (PTI)    Mohanlal breaks silence after a year on AMMA resignation<\/p>\n<p>Mohanlal says that he faced a lot of criticism but claims that he did not resign due to it, stating he had a different reason. \u201cI faced a lot of criticism. Suddenly, we became enemies to many people. But the <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/entertainment\/others\/mohanlal-resigns-as-amma-president-after-heavy-criticism-entire-committee-dissolved-101724750260149.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"resignations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">resignations <\/a>were not because of the criticism. I resigned when I felt it was time to put a full stop,\u201d he said. He also hoped that those who <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/entertainment\/others\/amma-president-shwetha-menon-says-assault-survivor-is-welcome-to-return-101755331463595.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">left <\/a>the organisation due to disagreements would return to the fold now.<\/p>\n<p>Mohanlal also added that his exit was not a \u2018defeat\u2019, but a part of the \u2018natural process\u2019 of leadership transition. He also remarked about the \u2018positive change\u2019 of women taking on leadership roles within AMMA after this year&#8217;s elections. <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/entertainment\/others\/shwetha-menon-becomes-1st-woman-president-of-amma-taking-over-from-mohanlal-after-his-resignation-101755271323002.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Shwetha Menon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shwetha Menon<\/a> took over as president and became the first woman to hold the role. Mohanlal served as AMMA president in two consecutive terms, from 2018 to 2021 and 2021 to 2024. He was also supposed to serve from 2024 to 2027 before his resignation. He refused to compete in the elections this year.<\/p>\n<p> Mohanlal&#8217;s recent work<\/p>\n<p>After a disappointing 2024, Mohanlal brought glory back to Malayalam cinema with L2 Empuraan and Thudarum. The former film made \u20b9265.5 crore at the box office and became the highest-grossing Malayalam film, while the latter made \u20b9234.5 crore at the box office worldwide. His most recent film, <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/entertainment\/others\/lokah-chapter-1-box-office-collection-day-4-kalyanis-superhero-film-leaves-hridayapoorvam-behind-crosses-20-crore-101756657359409.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Hridayapoorvam\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hridayapoorvam<\/a>, crossed the \u20b950 crore mark after its release on 28 August.<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/story_trending@2x.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"\/>                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on: Sept 06, 2025 01:10 pm IST Mohanlal shocked many when he resigned as AMMA president in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4376,93,4379,61,60,4375,4377,4378,270],"class_list":{"0":"post-3707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-amma","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-hema-committee-report","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-mohanlal","14":"tag-mohanlal-on-amma","15":"tag-mohanlal-on-resigning-as-amma-president","16":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}