September 11, 2017
Popular actor Sreenivasan's home at Kuthuparambu, near here,
was smeared in black oil allegedly by miscreants early on Sunday.
While
the actor lives in Kochi, the home that came under attack is located in the
CPI-M stronghold area at Kuthuparambu and is locked with a watchman keeping
guard.
According to the watchman, he was awake till 1 a.m. on Sunday and
when he woke up he found the gate, front courtyard and the front walls smeared
with black oil.
Sreenivasan, however, dismissed the episode in
characteristic humour and said he is not going to register a complaint on this.
"I only wish that the people who did this had smeared black oil all over the
house then it would have saved me from painting the home. I have instructed my
people there not to clean it up, and told them that if they suspect anyone to
ask them to smear black oil on all the walls," Sreenivasan told the media here.
The incident comes after the soft stand the actor has taken favouring
superstar Dileep, currently in jail for the past two months in the abduction
case of an actress.
Ever since the arrest of Dileep, Sreenivasan has
always given a clean chit to him. Two days back, he said that since he knows
Dileep very well, "Dileep is not a fool to do such an act".
Sreenivasan,
who does comedy and character roles, also writes scripts. He is also known for
the stand he has taken in several films, portraying the CPI-M and its ideology
in poor light.