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On the detention order, the police commissioner clearly wrote "detention of Thiru Suman alias Suman Thalwar, goonda".īut last fortnight, the actor made the first move to prove his alleged innocence. Sripal ordered Suman's detention under the draconian Goondas Act of 1981, an Act which allows the police to keep a person in jail for a full year without producing him before a magistrate. In his confessional statement he reportedly indicted the young actor as the brain behind a blue film operation designed to lure young, innocent girls, drug them and strip them for obscene photographs and films.Įvents moved very fast after that, On May 21, Madras Police Commissioner S. To make matters worse, 27-year-old Diwakar - also charged and sentenced in connection with the illegal possession of blue films - substantiated the charges against Suman. Overnight, the hero of the film industry became its blackest villain. Suman was arrested on the basis of far more offensive complaints filed by three young girls claiming that he had abducted, raped and forced them to act in blue films. The charge against him, of course, was far more serious than the mere illegal possession of a few blue films. On the night of May 18, a group of policemen arrived at Suman's house, seized some pornographic video tapes and arrested Suman.

Tall and handsome, he was one of the top actors of the Tamil and Telugu screens, earning Rs 5 lakh per film and completely booked up to the end of 1988.Īnd then, suddenly, the bubble burst.

At 26, Suman Thalwar was already at the peak of his career.