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Mammootty faces online harassment after visiting BJP leader’s home
The Story in Brief
Actor Mammootty has been targeted by online harassment after a private visit on Sunday (8 November 2026) to the Thrissur home of BJP state vice-president B Gopalakrishnan. The actor went to convey belated wedding wishes to Gopalakrishnan’s daughter, whose marriage on 1 November he had been unable to attend. Social media users criticised the visit after visuals circulated.
Gopalakrishnan on Monday (9 November) publicly defended Mammootty and urged an end to the attacks, saying genuine CPM workers were not responsible but internet trolls using false profiles. He noted that CPI(M) veteran and former chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan also attended the wedding. Senior CPI(M) leader Thomas Isaac separately said the attackers were not party activists and that the party wanted to maintain good relations with the actor. This is the second online backlash against Mammootty in recent months.
Update, 9 November 2026: Mathrubhumi reports two earlier controversies: Mammootty faced similar criticism after visiting the Statue of Unity in Gujarat and after asking a CPM district secretary to step aside during a Wayanad landslide rehabilitation tour. The other outlets confirm the core story and Gopalakrishnan’s denial of CPM involvement.
Indian Opinion Analysis
The coverage is uniform straight reporting, with Mathrubhumi, Economic Times and The Federal all leading on Gopalakrishnan’s denial that genuine CPM workers are behind the online harassment and attributing the attacks to fake-profile trolls. All three outlets also report CPI(M) leader Thomas Isaac disowning the attackers and stating the party wants good relations with Mammootty. Mathrubhumi adds context with two earlier controversies, the Statue of Unity visit and the Wayanad rehabilitation tour, that is absent from the other two sources. The balanced reading that emerges: the story’s newsworthiness lies less in the incident itself and more in the rare public alignment of a BJP leader and a CPI(M) figure against the same set of attackers. The next political test will be whether the cyber harassment resumes in the absence of this unusual defence.
Coverage: 2 sources, 2 neutral
Sources (2): mathrubhumi.com (neutral report), PTI (carried by economictimes.indiatimes.com, thefederal.com)
This brief was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry. Methodology and corrections.
