Director Sudipto Sen’s The Kerala Story, the controversial movie which is about to be launched on May 5, has been granted an ‘A’ certificates with 10 cuts by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC).
Among the 10 cuts is an interview of a former chief minister of Kerala, mentioned an India Today report. The Kerala CM is claimed to be VS Achuthanandan.
Another scene which is believed to have been deleted reportedly had “dialogues and inappropriate references to all Hindu Gods”. Besides, the phrase ‘Indian’ from a dialogue ‘Indian communists are greatest hypocrites’ has additionally been deleted.
The Kerala Story Controversy
Written and directed by Sudipto Sen, The Kerala Story is portrayed as “unearthing” the occasions behind “roughly 32,000 ladies” allegedly going lacking from Kerala.
The trailer got here underneath hearth because it claimed that 32,000 women from the state went lacking and later joined the terrorist group, Islamic State (IS).
According to the CPI(M) and the Congress in Kerala, the movie falsely claims that the ladies bought transformed, radicalised and have been deployed in terror missions in India and the world.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday had slammed the makers of the movie, saying they have been taking on the Sangh Parivar propaganda of projecting the state as a centre of non secular extremism by elevating the difficulty of ‘love jihad’ — an idea rejected by the courts.
Congress MP from Kerala’s capital Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor has said that the movie is a misrepresentation of the state.
“Let me stress, I’m not calling for a ban on the movie. Freedom of expression doesn’t stop to be priceless simply because it may be misused. But Keralites have each proper to say loud & clear that this can be a misrepresentation of our actuality,” he tweeted.
Earlier Tharoor had tweeted, “It (the movie) could also be “your” Kerala story. It will not be “our” Kerala story.”
Meanwhile, the Muslim Youth League in Kerala has introduced a Rs 1 crore reward for anybody who proves that 32,000 Malayali ladies have been, in actual fact, radicalised by IS.
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