Malayalam film personality Sreekumaran Thampi has said that he will oppose if someone says that there is communalism in Malayalam Cinema. There were allegations that there caste distinction in Malayalam cinema, following the insult faced by Bineesh Bastin. Sreekumaran Thampi denied all these and said that if the people with suffixes Menon, Pillai, Nair and so on are communalists, then actors like Sathyan, Prem Nazir, Yesudas wouldn’t have reached the very top, Sreekumaran Thampi wrote on Facebook.

“Did Mammootty and Prem Nazir become number one only because Muslims helped them? Is Yesudas hailed as ‘Ganagandharvan’ only because Christians helped them? It’s not caste or religion, but talent and hard work that is important”, he wrote in his post on Facebook.