India, Sept. 14 -- Keralam-based filmmaker Sanal Kumar Sasidharan on Monday began an indefinite hunger strike outside the state Secretariat, demanding the release of the Hema Committee report and a high-level probe into the irregularities flagged by the panel.

Sasidharan said he had taken the step alleging that the Keralam government was unwilling to order what he described as "fair investigations" into several issues, including an alleged conspiracy behind two cases registered against him on complaints by a prominent Malayalam film actress.

The director announced the start of his hunger strike in a Facebook post and shared photographs and a video from the protest site.

In the photograph, Sasidharan was seen sitting on a chair outside ...