New Delhi: Keralites have each proper to state that “The Kerala Story” is a “misrepresentation of our reality”, senior Congress chief Shashi Tharoor stated on Monday, stressing that he was not calling for a ban on the movie as freedom of expression doesn’t stop to be invaluable simply because it may be misused.
Tagging a poster of the Muslim Youth League Kerala providing a reward of Rs 1 crore if somebody can show allegations that 32,000 Keralites transformed and fled to Syria, Tharoor stated, “Now there’s an opportunity for all those hyping the alleged conversions of 32,000 women on Kerala to Islamism – to prove their case and make some money.”
“Will they be up to the challenge or is there simply no proof because none exists?” the MP from Thiruvananthapuram stated, utilizing the hashtag ‘Not Our Kerala Story’.
In one other tweet, he stated, “Let me stress, I am not calling for a ban on the film. Freedom of expression does not cease to be valuable just because it can be misused. But Keralites have every right to say loud & clear that this is a misrepresentation of our reality.”
Let me stress, I’m not calling for a ban on the movie. Freedom of expression doesn’t stop to be invaluable simply because it may be misused. But Keralites have each proper to say loud & clear that this can be a misrepresentation of our actuality. https://t.co/sEIG91mjSP
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) May 1, 2023
Sharing a poster of the film, Tharoor had tweeted on Sunday, “It may be ‘your’ Kerala story. It is not ‘our’ Kerala story.”
‘The Kerala Story’, starring Adah Sharma, is about to be launched in cinemas on May 5. Written and directed by Sudipto Sen, the movie is portrayed as “unearthing” the occasions behind “approximately 32,000 women” allegedly going lacking from Kerala.
According to the CPI(M) and the Congress in Kerala, the movie falsely claims they transformed, acquired radicalised and had been deployed in terror missions in India and the world.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan Sunday had slammed the makers of the movie, saying they had been taking over the Sangh Parivar propaganda of projecting the state as a centre of non secular extremism by elevating the difficulty of ‘love jihad’ — an idea rejected by the courts, probe businesses and the Home Ministry.
‘The Kerala Story’ is backed by Sunshine Pictures Private Limited, based by Vipul Amrutlal Shah, who serves because the producer, inventive director and co-writer of the movie. The movie’s writer-director Sudipto Sen’s earlier motion pictures are ‘Aasma’, ‘Lucknow Times’ and ‘The Last Monk.’
