Producer of ‘The Kerala Story’ Movie Should Be Hanged in Public: NCP Leader Jitendra Awhad

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GG News Bureau

Mumbai, 11th May. In the midst of the ongoing controversy surrounding the film ‘The Kerala Story,’ Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLA Jitendra Awhad remarked on Tuesday that the film’s producer should be publicly hanged.

“Under the name of ‘The Kerala Story’, a state and its women were defamed. The official figure of three was projected as 32,000. The person who produced this fictional movie should be hanged in public,” NCP leader Awhad said.

Vipul Amrutlal Shah is the film’s producer.

Earlier in the day, filmmaker Ashoke Pandit called the West Bengal government’s ban on ‘The Kerala Story’ a “major attack” on freedom of expression.

This comes just a day after the Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal banned the film ‘The Kerala Story’ citing “maintenance of peace” and to avoid incidents of “hatred and violence” in the state.

Reacting sharply to the ban of the film, Pandit who is also the president of the Indian Film and Television Directors’ Association said, “I condemn the banning of the film ‘The Kerala Story’ by the West Bengal government. It’s a big attack on the freedom of expression of a filmmaker. It is sending the wrong signal to the entire country.

West Bengal became the first state to ban the film, which narrates the ordeal of three women who are trafficked to ISIS camps after being converted to Islam through marriage.

There’s a continuing political outcry around the movie even as it has been made tax-free in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh and now Uttar Pradesh, becoming the second state to make the move.

On the decision to ban the film, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said, “It is to avoid any incident of hatred and violence, and maintain peace in the state.”

The key actors in ‘The Kerala Story’ are Adah Sharma, Yogita Bihani, Siddhi Idnani, and Sonia Balani.

The film sparked outrage as its trailer stated that 32,000 women from Kerala had gone missing and joined the terrorist group ISIS. However, in response to public outrage, the controversial figure in the trailer was later removed.

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