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The petition has requested the court to cancel the certification of the film and direct amendments including reconsideration of its title. Petitioner Sridev Namboodiri, a resident of Kannavam in Kannur district, has named the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, CBFC and producer Vipul Amrutlal Shah as respondents in the writ petition filed on February 18.
A bench headed by Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas, while considering the plea on Thursday, issued notice to all the respondents and posted the matter for further hearing on February 24. The plea said it has moved the court being aggrieved by the CBFC allegedly granting a certificate to a film titled ‘The Kerala Story 2 – Goes Beyond’ without proper compliance with the statutory mandate under the Cinematograph Act, 1952.
The film is scheduled to release on 27th February. According to the petition, he made this complaint after the teaser and trailer of the film came out. The film’s teaser and trailer depict stories involving women from multiple states but the content is branded as ‘The Kerala Story’, with alleged incidents of terrorism, forced conversions and demographic conspiracies specifically linked to the state of Kerala.
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“Such portrayals are likely to create a negative perception of the entire regional community, disturb public order and incite communal and regional disharmony,” the petition said. The petitioner said the alleged false claims in the first part of the film had already generated serious controversy, which was taken into consideration during the proceedings before the Supreme Court.
“Despite this, the CBFC granted certification to the film’s ‘sequel’ without adequately examining its impact on public order, decency and morality, as is mandatory under Section 5B of the Cinematograph Act, 1952,” the petition said.