{"id":5150,"date":"2023-05-04T16:25:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T11:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=5150"},"modified":"2023-05-04T16:25:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T11:25:12","slug":"malice-of-indian-islamophobic-film-exposed-before-its-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/asia\/malice-of-indian-islamophobic-film-exposed-before-its-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Malice of Indian Islamophobic film exposed before its release"},"content":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD, May 4 (APP): The Indian propaganda film titled \u201cThe Kerala Story\u201d was exposed even before its release after the critics questioned the veracity of the number of women, who were allegedly converted their faith and were trafficked to join ISIS.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The teaser of the movie released in November 2022 said it was based on the \u201cheartbreaking and gut-wrenching stories of 32000 females in Kerala!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the critics contested the magnanimity of this figure as many termed it a gross exaggeration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the controversy and calls for ban from different circles, the filmmaker toned down the claimed figure and reduced it to just three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, the trailer of the film, which came out last week, says that \u201cThe Kerala Story is a compilation of the true stories of three young girls from different parts of Kerala.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, in a video from a screening in New Delhi\u2019s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Tuesday, the director of the film Sudipto Sen responded to a question on the said figure, saying, \u201cDo you think the number actually matters? The 32,000 number is an arbitrary number. It is based on facts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film has been slammed by the state govt, critics, Indian media and many social media users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the movie is to further India\u2019s ruling party\u2019s propaganda [against Muslims]. In a Facebook post on Sunday, Vijayan said that the purpose of the film was to demonise Kerala and to divide the state along racial lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He further accused the filmmaker of threatening religious harmony by \u201csowing the seeds of communalism\u201d through the debunked claim that 32,000 women were kidnapped from India and handed over to ISIS.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the past, the Indian Muslims were maligned through another film \u201cKashmir Files\u201d just to pursue the Hindutva ideology being religiously pursued and backed by the Narendra Modi-led BJP government.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD, May 4 (APP): The Indian propaganda film titled \u201cThe Kerala Story\u201d was exposed even before its release after the critics questioned the veracity of the number of women, who were allegedly converted their faith and were trafficked to join ISIS. The teaser of the movie released in November 2022 said it was based on […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,96,84,396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-entertainment","category-india","category-latest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}