Bollywood Comes In Support Of “The Kerala Story”, Questions The Ban

Many Bollywood celebs including Kangana Ranaut, Shabana Azmi, Anupam Kher and others have come out to question the ban against "The Kerala Story".

Sudipto Sen’s directorial, “The Kerala Story” is currently grabbing a lot of attention. For the unversed, the film has been banned in states including Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. Mamata Banerjee including a few other politicians have now proposed a ban on the premiere of the film in the respective states.

However, despite putting bans and creating controversy, the film is receiving tremendous support from not only the audience but also many celebrities in the industry. From Kangana Ranaut to Shabana Azmi, Ashoke Pandit and Anupam Kher many celebrities from the Bollywood industry have rendered their support to the film.

Reacting to the ban on the film, veteran Shabana Azmi recently tweeted, “Those who speak of banning #The Kerala Story are as wrong as those who wanted to ban Aamir Khan’s #Laal Singh Chaadha (sic). Once a film has been passed by the Central Board of Film Certification nobody has the right to become an extra constitutional authority,”

Reacting to the tweeted actress Kangana Ranaut also extended her support and tweeted, “This is a very valid point except for the fact that no one asked for a ban on LSC people just didn’t want to see it for many reasons, major reason was it was a remake of a very popular old Hollywood classic which most people had already seen…”

Actor Anupam Kher also defended the film and told ANI that even though he hadn’t watched the film, yet he’s happy that people are making films that are close to the reality. While those who think its a propaganda film can make films dealing with subjects they think are perfect.

On the other hand, “The Kerala Story” director Sudipto Sen has also finally broken his silence on the matter and told ANI that his film was running fine within the last 4 days in Bengal, however suddenly Mamata Banerjee has realized that there might be some be a law and order problem.” He added that he had requested Mamata Banerjee to watch the film once.

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