A part of Alan Morinis's 1979 PhD thesis was edited to claim that a Hindu temple was destroyed to build an Islamic shrine at Tribeni in the Hooghly district of West Bengal. There is no conclusive evidence for this claim, he tells The Wire.
The Kerala Story continued to remain absent from Bengal’s movie halls for a second day in a row on Saturday as theatre-owners remained aloof from screening the controversial film. The Supreme Court had overturned a West Bengal government ban on the movie on Thursday and its distributors had tried to interest theatre owners in picking it up, without much success till now.
The Kerala Story which was released in theatre halls on May 5, claims that women from Kerala were forced to convert to Islam and recruited by the terror group Islamic State (IS). 📰 The Kerala Story Continues to Remain Absent From Movie Halls in West Bengal, Theatre Owners Remain Aloof From Screening Adah Sharma s Film.
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Director Sudipta Sen at a press conference earlier claimed he has been told by several hall owners that they have been threatened 'by certain quarters' and asked not to screen the film