It has now been over a fortnight since Sudipto Sen’s controversial film The Kerala Story hit the screens. The controversial film continues to generate divisive discussions among the many many public and on social media. While some declare that the movie offers an real illustration of events unfolding in Kerala, others argue that its creators are disseminating falsehoods as part of a propaganda effort in the direction of the state.
In the midst of all this, renowned filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma has come out in help of The Kerala Story whereas criticising Bollywood for its “death-like silence on the shattering success of the film.”
RGV moreover acknowledged the film will haunt Bollywood like a “mysterious fog in every story discussion room and corporate house.”
“We are so comfortable in telling lies to both others and ourselves that when someone goes ahead and shows the truth we get SHOCKED… That explains the DEATH like SILENCE of BOLLYWOOD on the SHATTERING SUCCESS of #KeralaStory,” the filmmaker acknowledged inside the first tweet of a sequence.
“The #KeralaStory is like a BEAUTIFUL GHOSTLY MIRROR showing the DEAD face of Main stream BOLLYWOOD to itself in all its UGLINESS.”
We are so cosy in telling lies to every others and ourselves that when any person goes ahead and divulges the fact we get SHOCKED..That explains the DEATH like SILENCE of BOLLYWOOD on the SHATTERING SUCCESS of #KeralaStory
— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) May 21, 2023
“The #KeralaStory will haunt like a mysterious fog in every story discussion room and every corporate house in BOLLYWOOD forever,” he recognized, together with: “It’s difficult to learn from #KeralaStory because it’s EASY to copy a LIE but very DIFFICULT to copy TRUTH.”
The controversy erupted after the makers of the film dropped its trailer claiming that the flick was primarily based totally on the tales of higher than 32,000 Kerala women who had allegedly been radicalised by Islamic fundamentalists. Meanwhile, amid backlash for its factual inaccuracies, they altered the trailer and the revised mannequin of the trailer description on YouTube acknowledged that the film was primarily based totally on the “true stories of three young girls from different parts of Kerala.”
Following this, the makers on Thursday educated the Supreme Court that they’d include a disclaimer stating that “there is no authentic data to back up the suggestion that the figure of conversion is 32,000 or any other established figure” and that “the film represents a fictionalised account of the events which form the subject matter of the film”.
According to enterprise tracker Sacnilk, The Kerala Story has thus far earned Rs 187.47 crore. Though its assortment has been dropping since Tuesday, Sacnilk has predicted that it might eke out good money on Sunday.
Nonetheless, Sudipto Sen’s controversial film has already emerged as a result of the second best hit of the 12 months, surpassing the lifetime collections of Ranbir Kapoor-Shraddha Kapoor starrer Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar in decrease than two weeks.
