Thiruvananthapuram: Malayalam teen actress Priya Prakash Varrier, who became an Internet sensation for her wink in her debut movie Oru Addar Love, Wednesday said she was happy with the Supreme Court's decision to stay the criminal proceedings against her and the movie director Omar Lulu.
Priya and Lulu had approached the apex court after multiple criminal proceedings were filed against them in Telangana and Maharashtra against the song titled 'Manikya Malaraya Poovi' which was released on YouTube as the teaser song of the film.
It was alleged that the song was 'offensive and violated the religious sentiment of a particular community'.
"Our advocate said everything is positive... Let this be a positive thing for all filmmakers," the 18-year-old actress, who shot to limelight after the song went viral, told reporters in Thrissur.
The film's director said the verdict was a "big relief."
"We are very excited.. Soon after the song went viral the entire team was celebrating when this news of filing of cases against us came... The artistes who are all very young were highly tensed," Lulu told PTI.
The shooting of the film was held up for re-writing the script to give Priya more prominence in the wake of her massive fan following on social media.
It will commence in the first week of March at Kochi, the director said, adding that only 20 per cent of the shooting had been completed.
"Priya had been called to do a small role which she did well and we decided to re-schedule her role. Now, there are five heroes and five heroines... The script and climax has been changed giving her more prominence," he said.
Priya, a B.Com student hailing from Thrissur, had sought the quashing of the FIR lodged against her in Telangana and also wanted the apex court's direction to prohibit states from initiating any criminal proceedings against her.
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