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The Kerala Story director reveals why film was banned in West Bengal | Bollywood

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A day after the West Bengal government banned The Kerala Story, film’s director Sudipto Sen called the decision ‘politically motivated’. In a new interview, Sudipto asked state chief minister Mamata Banerjee to watch the film and then take a decision. He recalled that when Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmaavat was banned in 2018, Mamata was ‘the first political leader who came in support of the movie’. (Also Read | Producers Guild of India raises strong objection on ‘state-enforced’ ban on The Kerala Story, says it is ‘distressed’) Sudipto Sen has spoken over CM Mamata Banerjee’s decision to ban The Kerala Story in West Bengal. West Bengal became the first state to ban The Kerala Story which narrates the ordeal of three women who are trafficked to ISIS camps after being converted to Islam through marriage. Mamata had said that The Kerala Story was banned to “avoid any incident of hatred and violence, and maintain peace in the state”. Speaking with news agency ANI, Sudipto said, “Not a single untoward incident has happened in the state because …

Producers Guild strongly objects to ‘state-enforced’ ban on The Kerala Story | Bollywood

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Amid calls for a ban on Sudipto Sen’s film The Kerala Story, the Producers Guild of India has issued a statement raising ‘strong objection’. On Tuesday, the official Twitter account of the Producers Guild of India shared the statement. It captioned the post, “Official Statement by Producers Guild of India.” (Also Read | The Kerala Story box office day 4 collection) The official poster of The Kerala Story which will be released on May 5. (PTI) The statement read, “The Producers Guild of India is distressed by, and would like to record its strong objection to, state-enforced bans on The Kerala Story. As emphasized by us on several occasions in the past, film releases are regulated by CBFC and any film that complies with this statutory requirement should face no further hurdles in having the paying public decide on its fate.” It also added, “Of course, the audience can choose to watch or ignore any film but that is a choice that should be theirs to make, not one that is imposed on them by …

The Kerala Story pulled down from theatres in Tamil Nadu | Bollywood

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The Kerala Story, which has been mired in controversies even before its release, is now no longer running in theatres in Tamil Nadu. The movie had released in very few theatres but is now not available for booking in any theatres in Tamil Nadu. Helmed by Sudipto Sen and produced by Vipul Amrutlal Shah, The Kerala Story has triggered a massive political row with many calling it a propaganda film. Also read: Vivek Agnihotri warns The Kerala Story team will get ‘unimaginable hate, feel suffocated’: Your lives won’t be same Adah Sharma in a still from The Kerala Story. The Kerala Story stars Adah Sharma, Yogita Bihani, Siddhi Idnani and Sonia Balani in the lead roles. The trailer came under fire as it previously claimed that 32,000 girls from the state went missing and later joined the terrorist group, ISIS. The Kerala High Court had noted on Friday that the producers have published a disclaimer along with the movie which specifically says that the film has fictionalised and is a dramatised version of events and …

Vipul Shah on The Kerala Story criticism: ‘Nothing will be without evidence’ | Bollywood

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Vipul Amrutlal Shah‘s next as producer, The Kerala Story, has already courted controversy prior to its release. Directed by Sudipto Sen, the film, starring Adah Sharma, claims many young women in Kerala are being brainwashed into joining terror organisations. A teaser for the film, released in November, was criticised for carrying inaccurate facts about the number of women, who might have been involved in these kinds of situations. (Also read: Shefali Shah opens up on ‘drawbacks’ of working with husband Vipul Shah, adds she never told him ‘mere liye ye kar’) In the teaser, Adah’s character, Shalini Unnikrishnan, is seen wearing a burkha. She states, “Now I am Fatima Ba, an IS terrorist in a jail in Afghanistan.” She also adds that “32,000 girls” have been also been recruited and converted like her. After the release of the film, a few politicians from Kerala shared that the film should be banned, while a journalist has written to the chief minister asking for an inquiry. In an interview with Mid-Day, Vipul has acknowledged the feedback to …

The Kashmir Files row: Sudipto Sen calls Nadav Lapid’s remark ‘unethical’ | Bollywood

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Filmmaker Sudipto Sen has opened up about Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid’s remark on The Kashmir Files at the 53rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI). In a new interview, Sudipto said that he felt fellow juror Nadav’s comment were ‘unethical’. As per the report, Sudipto added that The Kashmir Files was one of the 17 films, which were “rejected” from being awarded at the film festival. He added that ‘the film did not fit in the artistic criteria we had’. (Also Read | The Kashmir Files row: Nadav Lapid apologises for his comment, says ‘my aim was never to insult people, their relatives’) Nadav, who served as the chairperson of IFFI’s international jury, had termed Vivek Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Files a ‘vulgar and propaganda’ movie in his speech at the award ceremony during the closing night of the nine-day film festival in Goa. The Kashmir Files portrays the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from Kashmir in the 1990s. The film is one of the most commercially successful Hindi films of the year. It featured Anupam Kher, …