The film, directed by Sudipto Sen and released in May last year, tells a story of a group of women from Kerala who get coerced into Islam and are forced to join the terror outfit ISIS | Latest News India
PRO Father Prince Karakkatt said the 2023 film was screened for Catholic students of the Idukki diocese in Kerala as part of “enlightenment against love jihad”.
The Cinematograph Act and the amended Information and Technology Act has restrictions on screening adult rated films but the the Idukki Diocese of the Syro Malabar Church in Kerala screened the movie to school children.
CPI(M) and Congress have questioned the timing of The Kerala Story telecast ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. BJP minister V Muraleedharan, however, has asserted that the film is a ‘piece of art, and the expression of art is guaranteed in the Constitution’