The recent trailer of the Hindi film ‘The Kerala Story’ is gaining both appreciation and criticism. The film is written and directed by Sudipto Sen. Adah Sharma is playing the lead role. The film is based on a true story which is a controversial story.
The story is about thousands of girls from Kerala being converted to Islam for recruitment to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Adah Sharma plays the role of one of these girls who has been forced to convert and join ISIS. When the trailer was released, many users commented that whatever is shown is real and that they appreciate the guts of the director for bringing up this kind of story which would increase social awareness.
Upon watching the trailer of the film, the CM of Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan expressed his dissatisfaction. He said that the movie is made with the aim of communal polarisation and to spread hate propaganda against Kerala. His exact words were, “The trailer of the Hindi film, ‘The Kerala Story’, which appears to have been deliberately made with the aim of communal polarisation and to spread hate propaganda against Kerala was released last day. It is indicated from the trailer that this film is trying to spread the propaganda of Sangh Parivar, which has established itself as the center of religious extremism in the land of secularism, Kerala.”
He further added, “It is necessary to see propaganda films and their Muslim alienation in the background of various efforts being made by Sangh Parivar to gain the advantage in electoral politics in Kerala. It is also not right to justify those who use cinema only to create communalism and discrimination in the country. Freedom of expression is not a license to categorize this country, spread fault lines, and divide people. Request Malayalis to reject such communal and divisional attempts. Everyone should be alert against communal attempts to create unrest in society through false propaganda. Will take legal action against anti-social activities,” CM concluded.
Not only the CM, but popular politician Shashi Tharoor also tweeted about this film stating ‘It may be *your* Kerala story. It is not *our* Kerala story’. Later, he rephrased and tweeted that he is not calling for the ban of the film and that Keralites have every right to say loud & clear that this is a misrepresentation of our reality.
This movie has been facing many hurdles since the release of its teaser. Finally, the movie is all set for theatrical release on 5th May 2023.
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