The Kerala Story: released in over 200 screens in US and Canada

Actress Adah Sharma’s controversial film The Kerala Story, which entered its second week on Friday, is continuing its successful run at the box office. On Day 8, the Sudipto Sen movie once again minted in double digits. It reportedly collected Rs 12.50 crore (as per early estimates). The Kerala Story: released in over 200 screens in US and Canada.

With this, its total now stands at Rs 93. 86 crore. The Kerala Story which turned out to be a national blockbuster despite the controversies was released on more than 200 screens in the US and Canada on Friday.

The director of the film, Sudipto Sen, while talking to Indian American reporters during a virtual news conference said that this movie is a mission beyond the creative boundaries of cinema.

He said that this is a movement that should reach the masses across the globe and raise awareness. “The country was in denial of the long-existing issue in the state of Kerala.

The Kerala Story is a mission which is beyond the creative boundaries of cinema, a movement that should reach the masses all over the world and raise awareness,” Sen told a group of Indian American reporters during a virtual news conference.

“The film’s subject was hidden from the masses and deserved to be told. We made the film in order to initiate deliberation worldwide,” said the producer of the film, Vipul Shah. The film tells the story of three girls who were converted to Islam and ended up joining the ISIS.

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“This is a very bold, honest and true film which in the beginning got no support, today stands at the point of releasing worldwide with a spectacular box office success in just 6 days,” Shah said in response to a question at the virtual news conference organised by its Impact Advisor Priya Sawant and community leader Vijay Pallod.

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The film, which has been vociferously championed by the Hindu right, including the BJP, has been boycotted by cinemas across Tamil Nadu and has been criticised by many for originally claiming in a teaser that 32,000 girls from Kerala fled the state to join ISIS.