Sudipto Sen’s The Kerala Story is all set to hit the theatres on May 5, and the Congress occasion in addition to many political outfits are demanding a ban on the screening of the film. In the midst of those calls, Congress chief Shashi Tharoor issued a powerful one-liner on social media associated to the film.
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who’s the MP from Kerala’s capital metropolis Thiruvananthapuram, took to social media to share a poster of The Kerala Story and wrote the one-liner, “It may be your Kerala story, it is not our Kerala story.”
This jibe on the contents of the film comes simply hours after Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan slammed The Kerala Story, saying that the movie is “propaganda of the Sangh Parivar”, and deemed the film inaccurate and false.
CM Pinarayi Vijayan stated yesterday, “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.”
It could also be *your* Kerala story. It isn’t *our* Kerala story. pic.twitter.com/Y9PTWrNZuL
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) April 30, 2023
The upcoming movie The Kerala Story options the story of a bunch of 4 ladies who convert to Islam and be part of ISIS however are caught by the authorities whereas touring to Afghanistan with their husbands. The movie additionally touches on the difficulty of ‘love jihad’.
Written and directed by Sudipto Sen, the film is allegedly based mostly on the true story of 32,000 ladies going lacking in Kerala. The film additional claimed that these ladies – Hindu and Christian – have been transformed to Islam and compelled to affix ISIS.
The Kerala Story is about to be launched on May 5 in theatres, whereas the Congress occasion is urging the Centre to ban the screening of the movie, saying that it portrays the Muslim group in a nasty mild and can gas hatred.
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