The ‘Kerala Story’ continued to stay absent from Bengal’s film halls for a second day in a row on Saturday as theatre-owners remained aloof from screening the controversial movie.

The Supreme Court had overturned a West Bengal authorities ban on the film on Thursday and its distributors had tried to curiosity theatre homeowners in choosing it up, with out a lot success until now. Satadeep Saha, distributor of the movie in Bengal, advised PTI, ”There isn’t any change within the state of affairs … no theatre proprietor has stated sure as but (to shoing the movie)”.

On Friday the film’s director Sudipta Sen had speculated that film corridor homeowners right here had been maybe afraid of exhibiting the controversial movie, which the state had earlier banned fearing it might trigger ”communal disturbances”. Sen at a press convention on Friday claimed he has been advised by a number of corridor homeowners that they’ve been threatened ”by sure quarters” and requested to not display the movie.

‘The Kerala Story’ which was launched in theatre halls on May 5, claims that ladies from Kerala had been pressured to transform to Islam and recruited by the phobia group Islamic State (IS). The apex courtroom’s overturning of West Bengal’s ban on the film was accompanied by a ruling that the film be screened with a disclaimer that it was a ”fictionalised model” and there was no genuine information on claims on the variety of girls who transformed to Islam.

Sen’s earlier film, `The Kashmir Files’ was launched in March 2022 within the cinema halls in India together with Bengal regardless of curbs because of the pandemic. It was proven in over 100 theatres right here.

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