Mallika Sukumaran makes light of flood rescue images

Veteran actress Mallika Sukumaran has slammed people who are obsessed with the viral images showing her being rescued in a vessel as her house premises were apparently seen flooded. She claimed that her property was overflown with water from a nearby drain rather than flooded in the rain.

Mallika stated that she is tired after writing messages to all those who have enquired about her. “What you saw inside my house was not floodwaters. The road in front of my house was flooded and the water gushed into my car porch as well. My house is at a higher level than the road,” she reasoned.

Explaining what had happened that day Mallika said: "I had cleaned and dried a water tank inside the house as grandchildren, who are likely to arrive for Onam, may jump in and use it as their swimming pool. A small drainage is adjacent to this tank. The nearby canal overran in the rains and soon water began to gush into the house through that drainage. It was muddy water and soon it was everywhere in the house.”

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As the flood situation in Kerala reached a calamitous proportion, a photograph showing Mallika being rescued in a huge vessel from her flooded house in Thiruvananthapuram had become viral on the social media. No sooner had the pictures become trending on the internet, than she was targeted by trollers. However the actress has no complaints, and instead claimed she has only love and gratitude for those who enquired about her well being.

She admitted that it was a mistake to sit in a huge vessel to cross the street which was just only a few meters long. The actress said that she couldn’t walk through the muddy waters in front of her house and had only aped how her neighbour, a professor’s wife, was rescued. However, someone took her photograph and posted it on the social media.

“To be honest, I am fed up with all these. There are hundreds of other people who genuinely need help. No one is there to film them so that everyone would understand their plight. Anyway, my house has been cleaned now and I am at home,” Mallika said.

She further added that she has been overwhelmed by phone calls enquiring about her condition as the image spread on the internet. “My friends, relatives and well-wishers have been calling from abroad,” she said. “I am grateful to all those who enquired about me. However, this was just too much. Those who are far away got really scared,” Mallika remarked.