CPI MP Binoy Viswam seeks inquiry into ‘The Kerala Story’, calls it ‘politically motivated hatred advertising marketing campaign in the direction of Kerala, Muslim group’
On Wednesday, the CPI MP Binoy Viswam wrote a letter to the Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur looking for an inquiry into the trailer of the upcoming movie directed by Sudipto Sen named ‘The Kerala Story’. The chief alleged that the movie ‘is nothing but a politically motivated hatred campaign against Kerala and the Muslim community’. He moreover said that the movie is based on the false particulars.
“The film claims to unearth the story of 32000 women who went missing from the state of Kerala. This claim is based on lies and extrapolations,” the official letter written by the CPI MP Binoy Viswam study. It supplies that the film deliberately misquotes and misinterprets the statements made by the then CMs of the state particularly AS Achudananthan and Oommen Chandy. “The statements have been misinterpreted and translated incorrectly to malign the Muslim community,” Viswam claimed.
#TheKeralaStory | CPI MP Binoy Viswam writes to I&B Minister Anurag Thakur, stating that “the official trailer of the film is nothing but a politically motivated hatred campaign against Kerala and the Muslim community.”
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The chief moreover said that he would not think about throughout the love-jihad conspiracy. “The so-called Love Jihad is a baseless Islamophobic conspiracy theory aimed at polarization. The Union Ministry informed in 2020 to the parliament that no cases of love jihad have been reported. The narrative being propelled by The Kerala Story is thus, clearly based on lies and twisting facts and aims at fueling hatred,” the letter study.
It moreover added that the movie could present to be dangerously harmful for the communal harmony of the nation and notably the state.
This comes a day after the film was issued an ‘A’ certificates by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), aka the censor board. CBFC has reportedly ordered the makers to delete and/or tweak ten scenes from the film that included an interview with a former Kerala Chief Minister who is supposed to be the Communist chief VS Achuthanandan.
Reportedly, throughout the interview, the earlier CM of Kerala stated that the state would flip right into a Muslim-majority state throughout the subsequent 20 years. He had said that the youngsters throughout the state had been being influenced to rework to Islam. The censor board has ordered to remove the interview of the earlier CM that was on the end of the film and ran for 26 seconds.
The teaser of the film ‘The Kerala Story’ was launched in November 2022. Since then, the movie has sparked controversy over the declare that 32,000 girls from Kerala have been recruited by the Islamic State (IS) terror group. The Kerala authorities and opposition leaders have demanded a ban on the film. Furthermore, The Muslim Youth League has launched an award of Rs 1 crore for anyone who proves that the IS radicalised 32,000 Malayali girls.
The film is based on the true tales of a whole lot of girls from Kerala who had been remodeled to Islam and despatched to Syria to show into ISIS terrorists and intercourse slaves. It is about for a theatrical launch on May 5.
