Adah Sharma's ‘The Kerala Story’ continued to remain absent from Bengal’s movie halls for a secon🐭d day in a row on Saturday as theatre-owners remained aloof from screening the controversial film.
The Supreme Court had overturned a West Bengal government🐓 ban on the movie on Thursday and its distributors had tried to interest theatre owners in picking it up, without much success till now.
Satadeep Saha, distributor of thꦆe film in Bengal, told PTI, "Theജre is no change in the situation … no theatre owner has said yes as yet (to shoing the film)".
On𓆉 Friday the movie’s director Sudipta Sen had specu♔lated that movie hall owners here were perhaps afraid of showing the controversial film, which the state had earlier banned fearing it may cause "communal disturbances".
Sen at a press conference on Friday claimed h🧔e has been told by several hall owners that they have been threatened "by certain quarters" and asked not to screen the film.
'The Kerala Story' which was released in theatre halls on May 5, claims that women from Kerala were for🌊ced to convert to Islam and re♏cruited by the terror group Islamic State (IS).
The apex court’s overturning of West Bengal’s ban on the movie was accompanied by a ruling that the movie be screened with a disc꧟laimer that it was a "fictionalised version" and there was no authentic data on claims on the number of women who converted to Islam.
It was shown in over 100 theatres here.
