Shashi Tharoor, a senior congressman from Thiruvananthapuram, commented on the uproar surrounding the film “The Kerala Story,” which falsely asserts that about 32,000 “missing women” in the state were radicalised, converted, and used in terror operations throughout India and the world.
“It may be *your* Kerala story. It is not *our* Kerala story,” Shashi Tharoor tweeted by sharing the poster and further stated “uncovering the truth that was kept hidden.” The Kerala Congress has petitioned the state government to deny screening authorization for the movie because it is “full of lies and painted the Muslim community in bad light.”
The teaser, according to V D Satheesan, leader of the opposition in the Kerala legislative assembly, is a part of a nefarious plot to sow seeds of enmity and religious animosity, but the people will stand together to oppose such forces.
“The film is a bundle of lies. It says 32,000 women were converted and sent to Islamic State-held areas. Its trailer gave enough hints of its content. It is intended to defame the state and community and Sangh Parivar outfits are behind this,” added V D Satheesan.
Adah Sharma will appear in “The Kerala Story,” which will premiere on May 5. Sudipto Sen, who also wrote and directed the movie, claims that it “unearths” the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of “roughly 32,000 women” in Kerala.
The makers of “The Kerala Story,” according to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, are pushing the Sangh Parivar’s propaganda that portrays the southern state as a hotbed of religious extremism. The Sangh Parivar is a collective term for a group of organisations that are connected to or prompted by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), an ideological forerunner of the Bharatiya Janta Party.
