A day after the Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal banned the film 'The Kerala Story', filmmaker Sudipto Sen said the decision was "politically motivated" and urged Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to watch the film and then take any decision
This comes 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.
West Bengal became the first state to ban the film,' The Kerala Story' which narrates the ordeal of three women who are trafficked to ISIS camps after being converted to Islam through marriage.
Fitch Ratings forecasts India's headline inflation to decline, but remain near the upper end of the Reserve Bank of India's 2-6 per cent target band, averaging 5.8 per cent in 2023-24 from 6.7 per cent last year.
The West Bengal government in a notification on Monday said that the movie 'The Kerala Story' is "likely to cause a breach of peace" and that it has prohibited the screening of the film to avoid "any incident of hatred or violence to maintain law and order in the state".
Bharatiya Janata Party state chief Sukanta Majumdar on Monday, hit out against the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over banning 'The Kerala Story' movie in the state and said that this shows the "hypocrisy" of the CM.
Why would law and order get disrupted in the state if this movie is screened? The decision to ban the movie should be immediately withdrawn, or else CM should resign if she's not able to maintain law and order," Suvendu Adhikari said.
Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Monday, condemned the West Bengal government over its move of banning 'The Kerala Story' movie in the state, and accused the Opposition parties of doing "appeasement and vote bank politics".
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.
Manoj Bajpayee's Bandaa will be out on May 23. It is the story of an ordinary man , a high court lawyer who single-handedly fought an extraordinary case for the rape of a minor under the POCSO act.
Showing support to 'The Kerala Story', veteran actor Shabana Azmi tweeted, "Those who speak of banning #The Kerala Story are as wrong as those who wanted to ban Aamir Khan's #Laal Singh Chaadha."
The students also noted that the country wouldn't benefit from the ban on women's education continuing, and they urged the Islamic Emirate to reopen schools and universities for females.