Have you heard? Now rewriting Kerala’s story?

Updated On: 04 May, 2023 11:58 AM IST | Mumbai | The Hitlist Team

The makers of The Kerala Story have altered its trailer that initially claimed 32,000 women from the southern state had been forcefully converted and made to join the Islamic State terror group

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Adah Sharma in The Kerala Story

Now rewriting Kerala’s story?

Whether they had a change of heart, or were compelled to do so is something we’ll never know, but the makers of The Kerala Story have altered its trailer that initially claimed 32,000 women from the southern state had been forcefully converted and made to join the Islamic State terror group. Social media users pointed out that the new trailer states that the movie was a “compilation of the true stories of three young girls”. The description of its teaser uploaded on YouTube in November claimed that the film was about “heartbreaking and gut-wrenching stories of 32,000 females in Kerala”. Following the release of the original trailer, petitions challenging the film’s release on May 5 had reached the Supreme Court. On Sunday, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had said that the film was the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-led Sangh Parivar’s propaganda to project the state as a centre of religious extremism by raising the bogey of “love jihad”.
In the interim, cast members, including Adah Sharma, vouched for its accuracy and claimed they were “glad we can spread awareness with this film”.

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