![]() Incidentally, Sen was the only jury member who had not supported filmmaker Nadav Lapis, chairman of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) jury, who had called The Kashmir Files a “vulgar propaganda film”.Īfter the trailer, people in Kerala offered a tidy sum of money to the filmmaker or anyone to prove the 32,000 number but there was no response. Why did he use it in the first place? No answer. When challenged by the courts, the director Sudipto Sen quietly dropped the number from his trailer. There had been reports of three Kerala women who had reportedly joined ISIS – the 32,000 figure is a gross exaggeration, and plain factually wrong.Īlso read: What the Debate on the Ban on ‘Kerala Story’ Needs to Acknowledge No such figure existed, it was all a figment of the filmmaker’s imagination. That such a large number had disappeared from one state without anyone noticing it seemed implausible – and it was. The trailer, which was released a few days ago, kept on hammering all these points, including the claim of 32,000, even while questions were raised about the accuracy of these figures. ![]() This operation was carried out by Muslim boys who seduced these women - another example of the so-called nefarious ‘love jihad’ by Muslims. ![]() This one tells us about how innocent Hindu girls from Kerala - 32,000 of them - have been recruited by ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) after being converted to Islam. The Kerala Story is one more film that purports to tell the ‘truth’ but has little time for facts. ![]() Should a film or a book be banned? Should the wider public be prevented from seeing or reading it, simply because the authorities decree so? This is a question that keeps coming up every now and then and has once again being discussed after the release of The Kerala Story, a film that by all accounts is little more than hateful propaganda, full of factual errors, all deliberately distorted to present a particular point of view and, as was the case with The Kashmir Files, to demolish a community. ![]()
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