The Kerala Story: Journalist writes to Centre, seeks ban on movie unless makers confirm the veracity of claims

Chennai, November 08: A day after the makers released the teaser of the upcoming 'The Kerala Story' which sheds light on the human trafficking going on in Kerala, now, Tamil Nadu-based journalist Aravindakshan BR has sought a ban on the movie unless the makers confirm the veracity of claims.

 

 

The journalist has written a letter to the Kerala government and Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur and asked them to check the veracity of the content of it. In a letter, he asked the Union government to thoroughly investigate the source of information based on which the movie was produced.

 

The trailer, he said in the letter, narrates the story of a Muslim woman in front of an international border."In the character played by actress Adha Sharma, she says that she used to be Shalini Unnikrishnan and wanted to serve people as a nurse. She says she was forcibly converted to Islam and renamed Fatima Ba, then joined ISIS and later imprisoned in Afghanistan," the letter added.

 

 

 

Further in the letter, he said the teaser portrayed India's Kerala as a "terrorist state" as he claimed the video claimed it was a "true story set in Kerala"

 

He added if the movie, which is against the unity and sovereignty of India and tarnishes the credibility of all intelligence agencies, is released in theatres or OTTs with "false information", it will have bad consequences in society.

Besides, the Aravindakshan BR has also written a similar kind of letter to the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) chairperson Prasoon Joshi seeking a ban on the movie. He has asked the board to issue the censor clearance certificate for the film only after the film’s director reveals whether the claims made in the teaser are based on data produced by India’s intelligence agencies.

 

 

The film produced by Vipul Amrutlal Shah and directed by Sudipto Sen depicts a heart-wrenching tale about how women in Kerala are forcibly converted and inducted into ISIS.

 

The Kerala Story stars Adah Sharma in the lead role. Adah shared the terrific teaser of The Kerala Story on Twitter. In the teaser, Adah can be seen essaying the role of a victim who dreamt of becoming a nurse but was abducted from her home and imprisoned in Afghanistan as an ISIS terrorist.

 

 

 

According to a recent investigation, approximately 32,000 females from the Hindu and Christian faiths in Kerala and Mangalore have converted to Islam since 2009. The majority of these girls eventually wind up in Syria, Afghanistan, and other regions with a high concentration of ISIS and Haqqani influence. The movie will reveal the truth about this conspiracy and the suffering of these ladies.