the disaster that struck the state and left its people numb also proved to be a great leveller and citizens cutting across all kinds of barriers contributed to the rescue and relief work both individually as well as collectively many film stars made headlines by jumping fearlessly into the fray can the small screen actors be far behind we know that they too turned their social media pages into a platform to help and reach out to maximum people and help in the rebuilding process we talk to some of the popular small screen actors to find out how they coped with the flood and worked for the victims around themjoining the rescue effort was terrifying and satisfying at the same time raj kalesh anchorwhen the water came down in torrents i along with mathukutty and some friends decided to join the relief effort from august 17 we have been active in reaching out to people with relief materials and coordinating with various relief camps we travelled in our mini bus and joined the local rescue teams at respective locations where we got onto lorries and boats we visited chenganoor perisheri mavelikkara venmani mannar kayamkulam haripad kuttanadu puliyur aranmula and budhanoor which were badly affected by the deluge it took us three days to reach those stranded at their houses at budhanoor it was shocking but at the same time satisfying to join the rescue work around 500 men from a chenganoor group in their tipper lorries police officer dinesh babu sajeesh from haripad and karnan from kuttanad were some of those who even risked their lives to rescue thousands of stranded people actress alina padikkal joined us with her friends from bengaluru while actress esthers father anil worked with us at kochi it was very motivating to see actress shritha sivadas whose house was affected by floods at aluva joining us for the relief operationspic raj kalesh and team from haripad campi got to see my daughter after seven days aswathy sreekanthit all happened so quickly that i didnt know what to do i had to attend a threeday dance programme at the guruvayur temple from august 15 after the event we came to know that many parts of the city were submerged and there was no way out for days we were stuck in the temple premises but my heart sank as i was eager to be near my daughter padma who was with my parents at thodupuzha my husband was supposed to fly down from dubai to watch my dance show but had to cancel his flight due to bad weather though our house at thodupuzha was safe i had sleepless nights as my daughter was crying and asking for me over the phone to return fastbeing a public figure i received many forwards and rescue details though i was weeping inside i managed to verify the addresses and alerted the rescue teams i felt sad and insulted when someone commented under one of my rescue related