Pawan Kumar's feminist side takes up for his wife

Director Pawan Kumar is currently in the US promoting his latest production Ondu Motteya Kathe, which opened to great reviews at the

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Indian Film Festival. But, back home in India, a news report has angered Pawan. This report is about Pawan's wife, dancer Sowmya Jaganmurthy, who is set to make her debut as an actress. The

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filmmaker used his Facebook page to share his views on the article, which qualified Sowmya as Pawan's wife in the headline. This is what he had to say...
I am getting unwanted credit in this article.. wish the paper had not done that. Sowmya has reached here on her own accord. I haven't read the script.. I have not met any one from the team... other than bumping in to the producer at a movie screening recently.I am saying this bcoz.. giving a headline with "my wife" tag hugely diminishes her own individual struggle in getting this assignment. I think more than a wife.. she has been a daughter.. n a mother amongst many other things... N still got this project on her own merits. Other aspiring artists out there can easily write this success of hers as .. "oh bcoz she is married to him".. and that is wrong. Hence the clarification.So if I need to take any credit.. it's only for baby sitting our daughter while she was at rehearsals for this project. Nothing else.