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The Kerala Story Movie Leaked Online: Sudipto Sen’s Directorial Starring Adah Sharma Falls Prey To Piracy

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The Kerala Story Leaked Online Hours Before Its Release(Photo Credit –Still From Movie) Sudipto Sen’s controversial film The Kerala Story, starring Adah Sharma in a leading role, is slated to hit theatres today. The film had already created a lot of buzz among moviegoers prior to its release. However, the film became the latest target of piracy sites. Hours before its release, the film was leaked online in HD quality, and now, the sudden leak might affect its performance at the box office. Scroll below to read the scoop. The Kerala story is already grabbing a lot of headlines. Many have called it a propaganda-driven film featuring the story of three young girls who were forced to convert their religion and were later trafficked to Syria. The film has got a lukewarm response from the critics. The Kerala Story starring Adah Sharma created a lot of hype before its release as cinema lovers wanted to watch it because of its controversial subject. However, unfortunately, the film was struck by piracy and was leaked on different …

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, …

"I found it unethical": Filmmaker Sudipto Sen on Lapid`s remarks

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Bengali filmmaker Sudipto Sen has finally opened up on `The Kashmir Files` row at the 53rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI). In a conversation with ANI, the `Lucknow Times` filmmaker, who was a part of the jury board at the IFFI, said he found it `unethical` on the part of fellow juror and Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid to make statements against a film, which `wasn`t even awarded` at the ceremony. “As a practice, etiquette and ethic, the jury board is supposed to talk about films that are awarded. We don`t talk about films that are not awarded. The jury board has nothing to do with someone bringing out a rejected film for discussion in a public forum,” the `Aasma` filmmaker said. “If one of us (members) randomly goes to talk about a film which wasn`t even awarded at some platform, I would find it unethical,” he added. Explaining the process of decision-making behind the films shortlisted for the award at the film festival, Sen said, “We received 22 films, from which we were supposed …