Producer Vipul Shah has said “The Kerala Story 2: Goes Beyond” does not portray Kerala or its people in a negative light, hours after the Kerala High Court paved the way for the film’s release.
A division bench of justices Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and P V Balakrishnan stayed a single judge’s order that had put the film’s screening on hold for 15 days. The bench passed the interim order on an appeal moved by Shah late Thursday night, shortly after the stay on the movie’s release was granted.
Addressing a press conference shortly after the Kerala High Court order, Shah, who has co-written and produced the film under his banner Sunshine Pictures, said the film has been made with a lot of hard work and honesty.
“Neither our film, nor me, my crew members are against the state of Kerala, its God’s own country. It’s a beautiful and wonderful (state), but if something wrong is happening over there then I’m just bringing it out to people’s notice. Once you watch the film, you will see that we’ve not said anything negative about Kerala or the people of Kerala,” Shah told reporters.
According to the producer, the movie on religious conversion exposes a “few criminals who are from Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan”.
“Hence the movie is titled ‘The Kerala Story 2: Goes Beyond’. We are not trying to defame or are showing Kerala and people of Kerala in a negative light,” Shah told reporters here, adding that their film is not going to damage the culturally rich state.
The trailer of the Hindi film, directed by Kamakhya Narain Singh, came out earlier this month and courted a major controversy, much like its 2023 predecessor, with many on social media and political circles calling it hate propaganda.
The movie tracks the stories of three Hindu women from three different states going against their families to marry Muslim men and then being forced to convert.
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