Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday said,  that awarding national film honours to The Kerala Story can only be seen as spreading communal hatred. He said, at the Kerala Film Policy Conclave, “This also insults the great cultural heritage of Indian cinema and sends out the message that art should be used to destroy the secularism of our country and replace it with communalism.”

This comes after filmmaker Sudipto Sen won the Best Director award for his film “The Kerala Story”, which also received the award for Best Cinematography. The film had courted controversy for its portrayal of women in Kerala being forcefully converted and recruited by the terror group Islamic State. 

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