New Delhi: Amid controversy around 'The Kerala Story' film ban and the alleged exaggeration of numbers besides also being touted as a 'true story', several members from the Indian politics and some in the film industry have commented on it. After Kangana Ranaut, Anurag Kashyap, Sudhir Mishra who have addressed the Adah Sharma starrer related controversy, now veteran actor-politician Kamal Haasan has given a statement about the same.
Speaking to news agency ANI, Kamal Haasan said, "I told you, it's propagandist films that I am against. It's not enough if you write 'true story' just at the bottom as a logo. It has to really be true and that is not true."
Earlier Kangana Ranaut, Sudhir Mishra and Anurag Kashyap spoke about the ban around 'The Kerala Story' and spoke about how a film should not be banned despite being labelled 'propagandist' among other things. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee banned 'The Kerala Story' in the state in light of representation of a community in a certain manner.
Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has spoken against the banning of the controversial film ‘The Kerala Story’. He said that banning a film is wrong "be it propaganda or counter propaganda’.
Anurag Kashyap took to Twitter to express his views and wrote, "You agree with the film or not, be it propaganda, counter propaganda, offensive or not, to ban it is just wrong.”
He also batted for Sudhir Mishra’s ‘Afwaah’, which was released on the same day and said that the right way to fight the "propaganda" is by going to the theatres in large numbers to watch 'Afwaah’.
You want to fight propaganda. Then go in numbers and see the film that talks against misuse of social media and how inherent prejudice is weaponised to create hatred and unrest. It’s running in cinemas and is called “Afwaah”. Go make your voice stronger. Go make a point. That’s the right way to fight,” he tweeted.
Several well-known political figures like Smriti Irani have also spoken around the ban while the makers of the film have stood firm with the depiction of numbers in the film. Precisely, the makers have stated around 30,000 girls have undergone forced conversion in Kerala and have been missing while the unofficial count is around 50, 000.