Home LeisureThe Kerala Story Director Sudipto Sen Breaks Silence on ‘BJP Liking The Film’, Comments on Kamal Haasan’s Reaction
The Kerala Story director Sudipto Sen suggestions on Kamal Haasan speaking in opposition to the film and the best way people are calling it a film ‘appreciated by the BJP.’
Sudipto Sen on Kamal Haasan’s assertion (Photo: IANS)
The Kerala Story controversy: The launch of ‘The Kerala Story‘ triggered polarising reactions in the country. The film did a good Box Office business but was deemed ‘propaganda’ by a bit of the viewers. Actor Kamal Haasan moreover known as it a ‘propaganda’ film in his assertion a few days once more and now, the director of the film reacted to the similar. Speaking to a daily, Sudipto Sen commented on why his film is being criticised, banned, and known as propaganda by a bit of the viewers.
While chatting with the media in Abu Dhabi, Haasan talked about he was in opposition to ‘The Kerala Story’. He talked about, “I told you, it’s propagandist films that I am against. It’s not enough if you write a ‘true story’ just at the bottom as a logo. It has to really be true and that is not true.” In an interview with Hindustan Times now, Sen talked about there are people who had been earlier known as ‘The Kerala Story’ propaganda nevertheless modified their minds after watching it. When requested about Kamal Haasan‘s assertion, he talked about, “I don’t react to (such statements). Earlier I used to try and explain, but today, I don’t do that because people who called it a propaganda film, after watching it said it was nice. Those who didn’t see it are criticising it.”
He talked regarding the film not being screened in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. “The same way it was not released in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu. These guys didn’t see the film so they think it is propaganda. There are very stupid stereotypes in our country… life has to be black or white, they don’t know life exists in the grey,” he added.
Amid your whole flak that the film acquired after its launch earlier this month, PM Narendra Modi talked about it in his speech. Many completely different politicians from the BJP further praised the film and impressed the viewers to watch it in theatres. The director reacted to his film being appreciated by the social gathering. He talked about, “If BJP is liking the film, that doesn’t mean it’s their film. Not only BJP, but Congress and any other political party… internationally in 37 countries, people are liking it. Even if they have a criticism, they are calling and discussing it with me. I don’t have any regrets about that.”
Sen went on to criticise these which can be spreading negativity about his film. He talked about the true propaganda is of us calling it propaganda with out even watching it. He talked about, “What else would the words be than hypocrisy or petty! I have stopped explaining to them.”
‘The Kerala Story‘, starring Adah Sharma in the lead, is a story about Hindu women who are allegedly manipulated, brainwashed, converted to Islam and trafficked to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Many have objected to the filmmakers’ claims that 32,000 women are remodeled and despatched to ISIS yearly in Kerala – a declare that hasn’t been confirmed by the makers however.
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