Exhibitors have adopted ‘wait and watch’ strategy with ‘The Kerala Story’, film’s distributor

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By Arjun Ramachandran & Shashiprasad SM

04/05/2023

With The Kerala Story to hitting the screens, the distributor of the movie says “no divide as such” over the screening , but exhibitors have adopted a “wait and watch” strategy.

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Dubbed as “Sangh Parivar propaganda” by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, seeks to portray Kerala as a fertile ground for religious conversions and recruitment to the IS group.

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The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), or the censor board, on Tuesday gave the green signal with an ‘A’ certificate and some 10 scenes cut.

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The censor board ordered the deletion of dialogues referring to “the United States funding terrorists via Pakistan”, and “Communist Party not allowing Hindus to perform their rituals”.

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Even though The Kerala Story has created a buzz, theatres in Kerala are finding it difficult to accommodate the movie as existing movies like Pachuvum Athbutha Vilakkum are doing so well.

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With the Guardians of the Galaxy releasing on Friday and the previous week’s releases — Sisu, Ponniyin Selvan 2, Vinod Iyer, partner of Crown Theatre said it is difficult to accommodate The Kerala Story

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A source close to the movie industry said that most of the theatres in Malappuram won’t be showing The Kerala Story as Sulaikha Manzil is running strong.

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Kerala Chief Minister Vijayan and Opposition leader V.D Satheeshan had spoken against the movie on their social media accounts.

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According to the new description. The Kerala Story is a compilation of the true stories of three young girls from different parts of the state.

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