New Delhi: Actress Adah Sharma has stated that Kerala has not been depicted in a "derogatory light" in her upcoming movie 'The Kerala Story'. Adah posted a selfie of herself wearing a pink saree with gajra in her hair on Twitter.
"Many senior persons in high posts have commented on #TheKeralaStory after watching the 2 minute trailer," she said.
"My parents have always asked me to respect my elders so with due respect to all of them i hope they can take 2 hrs out of their busy schedule and watch the movie. I'm sure they will see that we haven't shown Kerala in any derogatory light. Jai hind," she added.
The movie has drawn criticism for presenting itself as a “true story” and claiming that 32,000 women from Kerala were recruited by ISIS. Even Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan took to social media to slam the film saying it was promoting what he called the “Sangh Parivar propaganda”.
"From the trailer of the movie, it can be gathered that the movie has taken up the Sangh Parivar propaganda that positions an uncompromisingly secular land like Kerala as a hot bed of terrorists," he wrote.
Adah Sharma portrays Fathima Ba, a Hindu Malayali nurse who was one of the 32,000 women who vanished from Kerala and was later recruited by the ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) after being forced to convert to Islam, in the movie 'The Kerala Story'.
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