'The Kerala Story' Producer Vipul Shah Is 'Happy' That PM Modi Mentioned The Film: An Answer To Everybody Trying To Target Us

On Friday, The Kerala Story's producer Vipul Shah expressed his team's contentment with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's endorsement of their stance that the film opposes terrorism, not any particular community.

During a rally held in Ballari, Karnataka, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a mention of the movie and said that the flick is creating buzz nowadays as it reveals terror conspiracies in the state.

"It is under discussion these days; it is said the film reveals terror conspiracies in that State," he said.

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Vipul Shah, who is also the creative director of The Kerala Story, is thrilled that the Kerala High Court has not granted a stay on the film's release on Friday.

"What more can we ask on a day when first in the morning, the Kerala High Court gives such a lovely judgment and none other than the honourable Prime Minister talks about our film and he highlights the issue that we are trying to highlight through the film.

"We have been saying this is a film against terror, terrorism, it is not against any community, religion and that stand is vindicated by none other than the honourable Prime Minister," he told PTI.

The filmmaker said the court’s order is "an answer to everybody who was trying to target us and tell us that we have made this film with some kind of agenda."

The HC refused to stay the release of The Kerala Story, saying the trailer does not contain anything offensive to any particular community as a whole.

The producers of The Kerala Story stated in front of a bench of Justices N Nagaresh and Sophy Thomas that they do not plan to keep the "offending teaser" that contained the statement that "32,000 women" from Kerala were converted and joined a terrorist organisation, and the court acknowledged their submission.

The Kerala High Court recognised that the film had a disclaimer stating that it was a dramatisation of events and did not claim accuracy or historical factuality, according to Shah.  He also claimed that the film is receiving a positive response from audiences.

"Today, the film opened to an unprecedented record-breaking collection and the trend is only becoming bigger by the passing hour. So, we are not able to predict where it will stop and where the number will be on day one. The nation is supporting the film, the nation is supporting the cause that we were trying to raise," he said.

The movie The Kerala Story, featuring Adah Sharma, was released in theatres on Friday with the initial claim of "unearthing" the truth behind the disappearance of "approximately 32,000 women" in Kerala.

(With PTI inputs)