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Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan. (HT_PRINT)<\/p>\nKerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday criticised the trailer launch of \u2018The Kerala Story 2\u2019, a sequel to its earlier part about a fictitious tale of three young women from Kerala being forced to join a terrorist outfit, warning the public about the intentions behind the film. The chief minister said the film had \u201canti-Kerala propaganda\u201d and exhorted the public to reject the film. The Bharatiya Janata Party responded by flagging the filmmakers\u2019 right to freedom of speech and expression.<\/p>\n
Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan. (HT_PRINT)<\/p>\n
\u201cOur state had understood that the first part of the film, filled with unfathomable lies, hatred and anti-Kerala propaganda, was made with communal motives. In fact, the people had rejected that distorted creation of art by spreading \u2018the real Kerala story.\u2019 The people who are behind such continuous hate campaigns are those who fear Kerala\u2019s example of brotherhood and secularism,\u201d the chief minister said on a social media post.<\/p>\n
He alleged that even consensual marriages are portrayed by such forces using the colour of communalism and forced conversions. \u201cThey view Kerala, a state with no communal riots and where people of all faiths coexist with mutual respect, with hostility. They are trying to poison the peace and tranquility of our state. They are our real enemies,\u201d he stated, exhorting the public to reject such films.<\/p>\n
The Congress also echoed the chief minister\u2019s words. \u201cThey are fabricating false stories with no connection to reality and they are deliberately spreading misunderstandings about Kerala, a land of harmony and friendship,\u201d Congress general secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the first part, they spread the lie that 32,000 women were tricked through alleged love jihad. This time, there are scenes where a person is forced to consume beef. It is clear that they are trying to hurt religious sentiments and sow hatred,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
The plot of \u2018The Kerala Story 2\u2019, scheduled to release on February 27, according to its director Kamakhya Narayan Singh, was not specific to Kerala, but rather explores themes such as forced religious conversions and the so-called theory of \u2018love jihad\u2019 at the national level. According to the director, the film has been inspired by \u201815-20 incidents\u2019 across India and tries to tell the truth behind forced conversions to the larger society.<\/p>\n
Responding to the criticism, BJP state chief Rajeev Chandrasekhar argued that there are courts and censor boards available to tackle any controversial content in films. He alleged that the LDF government and the chief minister are displaying hypocrisy over the right to freedom of speech and expression.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf anyone doesn\u2019t like \u2018The Kerala Story\u2019, they are free to not watch it. Those who want to watch can go ahead. Why should the chief minister decide which film I should watch?…(if there are issues in the film), anyone can file a case against it in court. There are censor boards here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday criticised the trailer launch of \u2018The Kerala Story 2\u2019, a sequel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[162188,156,16693,162189,409,111,139,69,83550,150462],"class_list":{"0":"post-293079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-anti-kerala-propaganda","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-kerala","11":"tag-love-jihad","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-pinarayi-vijayan","17":"tag-the-kerala-story-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}