Actress Beena Antony has responded to the allegations raised by actress Minu Muneer after the latter threatened to reveal many of Beena’s shady details. Earlier, Beena’s husband and actor Manoj had strongly criticized Minu in a YouTube video.

Beena Antony:

“I heard an audio clip that dragged my name with a gross description. Hema commission and the subsequent revelations from some actors are appreciable and hope it changes the industry for good. But in the midst of this, some people pretending to be actors are misusing the opportunity to tarnish the whole industry.

People who know me will not buy all these gibberish talks made by some alleged actors. I have not grovelled before anyone for a chance in the industry and there don’t exist any 'backroom stories' featuring me.

I am Beena Antony, an artist who received three consecutive state awards. I am not somebody who became an actor through revealing sleazy gossip about actors. The uncouth revelations and the pleasure she gets may be her way of doing things and I’m nobody to question it. But dragging my name into her fiction would invite lawsuits.

I have been in the industry for 33 years. There has never been a time when I had to stay at home without work. I’m still busy with work and don’t need to pick some other professions to make ends meet. Regardless of what we say some people will continue to bark at us. Let them do it.”