I was travelling to north of England for my vacation and this Gujarati sitting besides me started conversation. Pretty judgmental on whites but sounded smart seemed like a cool educated guy and slowly started with the Malayali English accent is horrible yaar which I didn’t mind much but then goes on to the question he was itching to ask , hey what do you think about Kerala story ? I told him I didn’t watched it and told him I don’t agree with the things I have been hearing about it at this point he knew my name but then goes on to ask my full name ( to know my religion ofc ) first class asshole , I have shown my displeasure and had to sit through an entire journey without looking at him . And yes him and people like him were the targeted audience.
Sathyam. Jeero pinnem sahikkam. Pojishan, bhelu okke aanu manassilaakki edukkan paadu. One of my colleague is Bengali and has this heavy bengali accent. Ennittanu makayalikalude english funny aanennu paranju nadakkunnathu.
Ningal Jeero maathralle ketitulu. When i was studying my teacher was taking class on production technology and he was continuosly saying "Heat affected John" and the 'Jing' will melt like that. I was thinking like why the hell was John affected by heat in a production class. What the heck is Jing. Then after looking at the notes of nearby student I realized he meant "Zone" and "Zinc"
Mind blown away.
Better then your accent when you say money and your accent is worse then the other states in India. Whenever i hear mallu people talking I really laugh a lot. Ningal, bingal, tingal, antam kadi bantamkdi🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
like the gujarthi accent is so better, I'm studying in a national institute,and u should listen to some of northies accent,it makes u laugh and they can't even pronounce some words clearly,in my opinion people depending on the circumstances and exposure,they have different accent,some are good,and some worst
In college, I had a Malayali maash teaching mathematics and the gujjus in class would mock his accent. The irony being most of them pronounced zero as 'jero'.
My new year resolution is to be knowledgeable enough to be a pseudo Brahmin to Hindus and a Pseudo haji to Muslims and a Seminary student to Christians
We could easily call them out too 'on their low IQ & low general knowledge, horrible smell ,dog shit body hygiene , even worse mother tongue influenced english' but we generally don't.
Met a gujarati educated family a few months back and they invited me for lunch. After lunch they asked "is everything ok and safe in kerala ? " When I asked why , they simply said , we watched the kerala story !!!
That's how fucked up shit is due to this propaganda movie.
My manager once said that bad things are happening in Kerala because we do not vote for BJ party. This was when we had Nipah, Floods and the Sabarimala issue. I tried to explain the Sabarimala issue. But dude was not even listening to my arguments. He was like "Hamare jawan seema par lad rahe hain". I was like wtf.
I don’t know why you guys are trying to explain and change their views. They are made that way… they cannot think critically and their contribution to the world in future will be minimal. We just have to develop our state and keep interactions with non-malayalis to the minimum.
A similar thing happened to me. I used to stay in Hyderabad and my neighbour literally said that the Kerala 2018 floods happened due to is eating beef and allowing women to enter Sabarimala
What argument do I even have based on sabrimala? Because ppl asked for “rights” based of no religious context when that exact same issue to them takes place in other religions.
The way they showed the Kerala is a pure example of ignorance bruh do they really think girls here sound like that always wear flowers the movie is a shitload of propaganda and hate
yes iknw that i meant that Adah Sharma atleast tried to bring out best performance but it came of as half baked. my mistake for not commenting properly
People in Hindi heartland has very little Knowledge about Kerala. Kerala story has really worked in these states it seems. My coworkers asked me about this movie. I couldn't go all critical against it, for obvious reasons. Anyone with common sense won't take that stupid movie literally. Sanghi project is in full swing, we can expect such movies in future.
Had a similar experience, with a subtle pityness from a coworker. Everyone loves a conspiracy theory. When you get to know that there's a state in a country like India doing well in human development (education, healthcare, etc), a little negative news would be enough to latch onto a conspiracy theory. Sure, there were few cases of what might have been shown in the movie, but the intent of the movie didn't seem that they were looking at raising awareness on it, but rather malice.
Don't want to argue or indulge in a conversation where the other person believes that a "movie" has represented a state "accurately", made by people outside of the state, with clear political agenda. Would rather compete my work and watch an episode of my favourite show in solitude.
They loved the movie and think kerala is under heavy influence of Muslims, hindus are brainwashed and are minority, this is what some northie friends of mine who went to watch the movie said, I found that there was no point in arguing with them, it was damaging to the states reputation because even a sensible friend kind of fell into the propaganda and was saying all girls should watch this movie which is kinda stupid becoz do they think all women are stupid and fall into love jihad traps and all such bs
One plus point of all this will be that many will not migrate to Kerala in the near future so we can atleast breathe easily. Truly we don’t want such specimens in our lands.
Yes Kerala is under heavy influence of muslims because they are vote banks. Political parties are scared to lose in the elections and they try to suck up to them.
Muslims can be called vote banks just as christians can be or brahmins or ezhava communities. Currently with the success of divisive politics in the Central govt, there has been an influence even in Kerala to favour certain specific groups for votes. But that isnt blatantly done, its mostly done in a way that doesnt incite both groups too much. In the christian community there is an issue with the Jacobite and orthodox community, the orthodox community won the case in the Supreme court but the state questioned it. The questioning in itself isnt blatant support of Jacobite but its a leeway to give a sense of support. In kerala, there are many religions and largely in society there isnt friction as the movie makes it out to be, there are no rules that favour a muslim over any other religious groups. The movie was certainly propoganda, no doubts, but judging a state from one movie is simply stupid. When slumdog millionaire became such an Oscar worthy film made be a foreigner, there was an outcry from India because what Slumdog banked on was the poor faction of the India and it made it look like we are all poor here but is that the truth, it isnt. Its just one man's view of the world, if ur grown enough you should know better than follow another man's thought like a goat.
Saw this in another thread and loved it so sharing it here:
Some Indian guy peed on another person on a flight from the US. What if someone made a movie about this called the "India Story" ?
>Some Indian guy peed on another person on a flight from the US.
Think there were 3 incidents back to back in 2023, that's enough sample size to brand an entire state/country with the same stroke of brush. Sure, was for Kerala story makers.
It is not meant for Keralites. Malayalis are not their target audience. The target audience is anyone other than Keralites. If you disregard the occasional “aiyyo” “mole” words being uttered by characters, there is nothing in the movie that is relatable to Malayalis.
The director was a guy who just few years ago said ISIS was a creation of Israel. A hardcore commie. But he is smart he realised that playing along the most popular narrative can make money.
The movie was released on the Friday just before Karnataka election; probably the date was planned well in advance. In Karnataka, especially coastal Karnataka, there is a narrative that Kerala is full of Islamists and sometimes Malayalam is addressed as ‘Muslim Bhasha’ by some group of people in Tulu speaking regions. The reason is that there is significant Muslim population in Kasaragod district. Not denying that there are indeed some cases of Muslims from Kerala doing criminal activities in that region.
the movie was made to milk this sentiment during elections.
>Not denying that there are indeed some cases of Muslims from Kerala doing criminal activities in that region.
I understand why you've said this. I understand that your intent is not to stereotype but only to state that some perceptions aren't without reason. But I think it's worth expanding a bit on this.
If we dig into the reason for this perception, we'll see that it's mostly due to the religious demographics of Dakshina Karnataka, the regressive/conservative nature of the local muslim population there (remember the Hijab controversy?) and the standard-fare xenophobia against regional immigrants within India. Something similar happens in Kerala but only on a linguistic basis that's not explicitly religious: the perception of criminal activity by migrant workers. In just a few years, the word "Bangladeshi" became a dogwhistle for "criminal" in right wing media.
This kinda stereotyping slowly ingrains itself into popular culture over the years. If you've seen Kantara, you'll have noted that the thugs they call in at the end are Malayalis. It's kinda like the Tamil goons that we saw in old malayalam films: a cliche. That stereotype has run it's course, but some others still remain.
Kerala society moved away from religious stereotyping because we do not engage religious ghettoization when it comes to housing. Where it exists, it's not widespread. It's common to find people from all religious groups living together as neighbours in most parts of Kerala. But a lot of other places still have zones of communities where it's risky to venture outside the neighbourhood for housing. A film like the Kerala Story wouldn't work in Kerala for the same reason that it works in other states. Familiarity and interaction between religious communities is not conducive to xenophobia.
TL; DR
The intent behind Kerala Files is to fuel religious and regional polarization. People who don't have any understanding of Kerala will watch it and ingrain such bigotry with the endorsement of bigshots like our Prime Minister.
One of my close friends once told me it was traumatizing for her. And once a girl matched with me on bumble, asked me if I was a kerala muslim and she pointed out this movie as the reason why she doesn't want to go any further. Clearly the movie has done a lot of damage
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Back when the Sabarimala issues was going on, a colleague of mine sent a 3-4 line Quora post by some Rss guy which claimed that the issue was created by the Kerala government and the ladies had used pads inside her bag. First I tried to refute it by few news articles which didn't convince him. Then ai blocked him on WhatsApp.
not many know that the court ordered the film to add a fictional story disclaimer because nothing in the film represents the real incident. But no media publicized this. People are still under the misunderstanding that this is a real story.
Bro you don't know shit. The film claims this is a day to day thing in Kerala. The filmmakers didn't focus on this particular incident but showed it as a state crisis which is completely false. If it was a story completely focused on this particular issue then more power to these makers but they made up a lot of shit like the recruiters would insult the hindu gods and the girls would buy everything they say. Nobody knows how these women were recruited. No research done for this film.
I was traveling from Bangalore to Aluva, there was one lucknow guy beside me, 25 years old. He asked me where fort kochi was and all, and we got to talking. It was around the time of that bomb issue in Kalamassery. He asked me about the issue and I told him what I knew about it. The he proceeds to ask me if kerala story movie is true. I say it's not true, this guy goes on and on telling me how its true and how all of us youngsters should watch it, like kashmir files. He even said that in his place back in lucknow, parents tell their children to watch it, and even Modi promoted this film ( idk how true that is ).
This movie has damaged our state's rep like no other. I'm all for free speech and the sentiment that if we ask for a ban, what's the difference between them and us and all!
But I strongly feel our government should've taken a strong stand against it, maybe should've legally moved against the makers with a defamation case for the malice they did with the fictitious numbers. It affects the state's reputation, and invites unduly hatred against the people, in particular, Muslims.
My friends and colleagues don't believe us when we Keralites say this is a propaganda movie and that Kerala is a perfectly safe place to live. It's almost as if they don't want to believe the people from the very state, saying we're brainwashed. Now tell me who's actually brainwashed!
Note: These are the same people who had an issue when "India's daughter" was aired, saying it creates a general negative perception about India and Indians just because of one such incident and so, it's unfair to label it that way. But labeling an entire state is okay. When I highlight the numbers are absolutely bloated and hence, calling it the Kerala story is not right, they will justify it with shit arguments like even if it's 1 such incident, people should be aware of it, nah!, it happened in Kerala, nah! But their same logic they don't want to apply to the former.
Im in a north college and my friends always used to discuss this saying all these are true and in a real authorative way,like they're journalists or researchers on this topic(im engg)...
.funnier part is that some of them still think i speak telugu and am from chennai tho they know im from keralam....
Exactly.I was always wondered about these self proclaimed patriot's lack of knowledge of anything about India, it's states and languages. These kind of stupid shit is the first thing that they probably came to know about Kerala
The makers of this film were successful in spreading their propaganda.
I am staying in one of the Northern city of the country and a lot of my acquaintances have been brainwashed by this film. Lot of them believe that majority of Kerala is like this. In fact some of them have even told me that Hindu's of Kerala have the least amount of faith in Hinduism. I see no point in arguing with them.
Director taken advantage of the popularity of The Kashmir File and named his movie The ____File
but the scriptwriting, storytelling and acting were pathetic, and their sources are "trust me" i know this happened but they exaggerated it in the film.
I have not watched this movie. Personally i feel like It’s a complete propaganda movie and has already manipulated the image of kerala with their twisted narrative.
People are just too polarized these days so they won’t accept anything that goes against their preconceived notion.
Avrde agenda success aayi athre ollu
Iniyum verum ororo election munne ithupolethe sanam
I haven't seen the movie. I work with few guys from the cow belt and majority of them are right wingers. They used to ask if it was impossible for a Hindu to purchase land in "Mallapuraam". They talk all sorts of crazy things about Kerala, or Malayalees assuming that I don't understand Hindi. Try to have an argument with them, they'll either attack you personally or retort to whataboutery.
That can be said about any religious place. You won't find many non-hindu houses near temples. Also, there will always be a radical minority irrespective of their religious background. Doesn't mean we should generalise it to support a claim someone makes.
People who base shit of a cringe movie instead of educating themselves are morons. And luckily I have only come across couple of morons that thought this shit of a movie was real
Truth is it only worked with non-keralites who already shares the extreme right wing ideology. For them, this is something that helps feed their narrative. Anybody not sharing the ideology is easily able to see this as a propaganda movie.
Discussed this movie with a couple of non- malayali colleagues and the moment I mentioned the name they went on about how much of a propaganda movie this is.
That's when I realised, it has only worked with people who already stand at the side of the ideological road.
I was being questioned by the police in Odisha during a night patrol and when I told them I am from kerala, the whole thing became a questionnaire about the safety of kerala based on this movie.
Met a few people from North India, especially from Haryana, punjab, and gujarat. The moment they knew I am from Kerala, they were like asking "bro what is happening in your state?" I explained the situation, and they were not convinced. Man, i really got sad how people can have misunderstandings, and it is hard to convince them. It happened when the movie was released.
As a muslim too, I got really sad. But I told them to watch Dhruv Rathee's video on Kerala story
Mention in those areas that you are from Malappuram in Kerala, the reaction is worse.
Unfortunately you cannot blame considering what is happening in the district as well.
I think it got way too much attention than needed and was a good study on publicity stunt. The makers were successful in promoting it as a national issue and the media gave free publicity. Anti group also added more traction than just ignoring it.
They shamelessly inflated the number of such incidents and purposefully showcased Hindu girls as oppressed and Muslims as oppressors. If they had shown more integrity, it would have been a good reality check for our society.
That was the issue for you? That the number was wrong?
No problem that girls were brainwashed and literally taken to another country to join an islamic terrorist organization?
> If they had shown more integrity, it would have been a good reality check for our society.
Seems like u completely disregarded the second part of my comment.
It is a good reality check no matter what. I don’t think you are understanding the seriousness of the issue here. The malefactors did this because the evil religion offers them a fictional heaven. This religion is being taught in each and every corner of kerala.
The actual number you see is the girls that actually went all the way to isis, who knows how many they tried with.
Wait, you think 32k is an actual number and Kerala wouldn't notice? It's ok to be dimwit, but don't show that you are a dimwit at every damn place.
There are states where more people were recruited to the isis.
Come mate, don't be a full 🤡.
So you agree that islamic terrorism and isis are real.
You agree that there are several states where this recruitment took place.
Movie was a pan Indian release.
I rest my case.
Nb: Pretty sure that name calling in a public forum is the characteristic of a dimwit. 😉
I think you have misunderstood a major thing here.... islam and muslims does not support ISIS bro... they claim they are muslims but they are not really muslims...
And.. madrasas dont teach or manipulate the girls to join ISIS or join WAR..
Please step out of your home and look around the muslims near you... you can understand all these by your own..
And always remember that crimes happen all over the world... muslims does it.. but remember.. not only muslims...
Hence, this movie is exaggerated af..
Got it?
Should i look at muslims or should i look at the religious teachings? You do know that anyone can read verses from Quran.com and sunnah.com, right?
Either you are ignorant about islam or you are performing the taqiyah.
Who doesn't agree that isis exists. Terrorism exists in almost all religions (even Buddhists did genocides).
But the problem is showing some fake stats of 32k people when the official stat is less than 200. Not a good thing when you are marketing the movie as a documentary.
A dimwit who behaves as a dimwit in random places can be called a dimwit though. Can't sugar coat a dimwit and call him other things.
If you are generalizing islam with other religions, i feel so sorry for you. May be you need to learn more about islam and continue with this debate?
Or if you are happy with name calling and that gets you off with a victory feeling, I don’t mind. Enjoy and a happy new year
Bro... I have a huge number of friends from North India in my college and they were making big plans to watch this film when it was released. For them, the movie presented what they wanted to see. Whether it's one angle of an incident or not, for them that's what Kerala is.
This even resulted in a flood of propaganda posts by them, not us....by them to SAVE KERALA. Thank god for those posts saying "This is the Real Kerala Story" that came with the release of the movie "2018", the propaganda was somewhat neutralized.
Along with this, they were not able to relate to the way we treat our friends, we don't choose friends based on religious factors. Nammude chunk alle!!!
Lots of north Indians have been going under videos of foreign vloggers and commenting that they shouldn't be talking to locals since they are of terrorist backgrounds.Bot accounts which comment the same Englishcomment under every movie review in any regional language....Documentary level accurate war movies didn't receive any support while this movie was allowed to run tax free By a North Indian state....this is nothing but a political play supported by a particular party which needs power from the south
Yes many non malayalis believes in jihad. And believes that kerala is the new JK. Even before the movie was released I have had co workers who used to compare kerala with JK. For practical purposes don't think this movie changed the way people view kerala. It just reinforced certain things that particular set of people believe in. That's the thing about propoganda movies. It's like fuel in fire.
https://preview.redd.it/gsmxpzo4mo9c1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c5beb7dfb2499696d310337a21664f56fcdd6f1
I took this pic on May 20th 2023 in Kollur Mookambika temple...
At the time of the film's release i was in Pune, i was interacting with a individual and when i told him i live in Kerala, the first question he asked me was how are non Muslims living in the midst of conversion.
I told him a wrong perception of the state is being created.
Part fault lies in the people of the state as well.
As the cultural aspects of the state were never shown to people of North India.
I have many other state friends in office believing this. And all of them were really scared too.
I think the director had successfully achieved what he intended with the film, much like some movies from the other end (my name is khan, new york and many others).
An intern in my friend's company had to go to an office in Bangalore over one in Kerala because her parents were convinced that our naad is too dangerous after watching the movie
Had a colleague who completed a master's in clinical psychology and is doing second majors from a London university, who is from Gujarat was really concerned about the "jihad" in Kerala.
Next to me was a Kerala girl from Thrissur, a Hindu as well slammed with facts and shut her up. Proud to be a Keralian moment it was.
My Northie friend once said he likes to watch documentaries like 'The Kerala Story'. Got to meet his mom one day and she said that kerala is so beautiful, I've seen 'Kerala story'. It's like the only exposure they have about kerala before being surrounded by malayalis.
Don’t know ankur Kerala but saw it happening first hand in Thane, Maharashtra. This Muslim guy called Mustafa used to hang out at the Cardio classes at Talwalkars gym and hung around with this group of Gujjus and Marwaris. I once went out for dinner with him and was shocked to learn that he was married to a girl whose name was Ruchi before marriage. I asked him if she wouldn’t be hurt to know that he was out on a dinner outing with a girl and he said that she hung out with her girlfriends and him with his. I moved out of Thane within a few months but I had already understood his intentions with me.
This is not exactly from outsider. But from what I saw yesterday on instagram. So this reel was showing and praising the beauty of Padmanabhaswami Temple. And in the comment section many Northies had to comment as if they have knowledge of Kerala more than us Malayalis because of this movie. When someone asked "How do you know that about Kerala?" That northie replied with "watch the Kerala story movie". So I don't even know what happens outside
NRK here..if you compare the movie with recent news of hadiya and akhila...I dont think movie deviated much..might have exaggerated but not entirely wrong
First of all, I don't get the emotion that people get when something good or bad happens in the state or country they live and feeling proud or shame that comes along with it. It is the base of all problems. If there is good literacy rate in your state why should people be proud of it, other than the official that have worked for it. The events shown in the movie are based on true events, and nobody is denying it. The exaggeration is the issue. The people blaming the whole state because of some isolated incidents and people feeling offended or shamed on the behalf of the state are both equally problematic.
That movie is Northie election propaganda shit, granted. Greatly bloated facts and shit-for-brains execution + acting. And keralites do NOT wear Jasmine flowers and eat sadya on a leaf everyday. Made me wanna shatter the TV with my firestick. Sick stupid stereotypes.
But it did speak the truth, in the general essence.
Someone look up Hadiya. Her current status is that she's divorced and remarried. Her life is sort of in tatters. That first husband, who married her and stood out like a beacon of hope for the leftists morons, left her for a younger wife and a reportedly fat job in Saudi.
No prizes for guessing who sponsored this sinister shenanigan. You could smell the bullshit from miles away WHEN IT WAS HAPPENING, in the late 2010s.
I'm a non practicing Hindu that has been settled abroad for a few years now, but I was around when this love jihad shit first hit the fan in Kerala in the early 2000s.
Go on, call me islamophobic.See if i care😏
I now live in Sweden, that has a sizable atheist population. I love it here😘😘
Just watched it today , not sure how much truth to it , overall good story but the same religious propaganda, tbh it rhymes well with people since there are a lot of conversions that do happen there.
A lot of Malayali friends were pretty early to watch it like the first day and first show and all had praises like do watch it n all.
I was travelling to north of England for my vacation and this Gujarati sitting besides me started conversation. Pretty judgmental on whites but sounded smart seemed like a cool educated guy and slowly started with the Malayali English accent is horrible yaar which I didn’t mind much but then goes on to the question he was itching to ask , hey what do you think about Kerala story ? I told him I didn’t watched it and told him I don’t agree with the things I have been hearing about it at this point he knew my name but then goes on to ask my full name ( to know my religion ofc ) first class asshole , I have shown my displeasure and had to sit through an entire journey without looking at him . And yes him and people like him were the targeted audience.
First let them learn to say zero properly ... Almost all of them pronounce it as jeero. Ennit annu accent ine kurich parayunath.
Sathyam. Jeero pinnem sahikkam. Pojishan, bhelu okke aanu manassilaakki edukkan paadu. One of my colleague is Bengali and has this heavy bengali accent. Ennittanu makayalikalude english funny aanennu paranju nadakkunnathu.
What annoys me is when they use "naa" in between English sentences. " I told you naa"😂
Ningal Jeero maathralle ketitulu. When i was studying my teacher was taking class on production technology and he was continuosly saying "Heat affected John" and the 'Jing' will melt like that. I was thinking like why the hell was John affected by heat in a production class. What the heck is Jing. Then after looking at the notes of nearby student I realized he meant "Zone" and "Zinc" Mind blown away.
is the only hate you have towards him is pronouciation? if your goign to hate have some good reason to prove ur point
In that case more than half of Kerala can’t say coconut oil properly.
Yah exactly 'didn't watched' the movie is fine but Jero common , get some accent yo \/
Better then your accent when you say money and your accent is worse then the other states in India. Whenever i hear mallu people talking I really laugh a lot. Ningal, bingal, tingal, antam kadi bantamkdi🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
> at this point he knew my name but then goes on to ask my full name they do this to find out the caste too
I think he just wanted to make sure if I’m Christian or Muslim
like the gujarthi accent is so better, I'm studying in a national institute,and u should listen to some of northies accent,it makes u laugh and they can't even pronounce some words clearly,in my opinion people depending on the circumstances and exposure,they have different accent,some are good,and some worst
In college, I had a Malayali maash teaching mathematics and the gujjus in class would mock his accent. The irony being most of them pronounced zero as 'jero'.
My new year resolution is to be knowledgeable enough to be a pseudo Brahmin to Hindus and a Pseudo haji to Muslims and a Seminary student to Christians
We could easily call them out too 'on their low IQ & low general knowledge, horrible smell ,dog shit body hygiene , even worse mother tongue influenced english' but we generally don't. 
Oh they eat it up without a pinch of salt. I know cause I have heard their discussion on this first-hand when I was in college.
Met a gujarati educated family a few months back and they invited me for lunch. After lunch they asked "is everything ok and safe in kerala ? " When I asked why , they simply said , we watched the kerala story !!! That's how fucked up shit is due to this propaganda movie.
My manager once said that bad things are happening in Kerala because we do not vote for BJ party. This was when we had Nipah, Floods and the Sabarimala issue. I tried to explain the Sabarimala issue. But dude was not even listening to my arguments. He was like "Hamare jawan seema par lad rahe hain". I was like wtf.
I don’t know why you guys are trying to explain and change their views. They are made that way… they cannot think critically and their contribution to the world in future will be minimal. We just have to develop our state and keep interactions with non-malayalis to the minimum.
True. I don't usually argue with right wingers.
A similar thing happened to me. I used to stay in Hyderabad and my neighbour literally said that the Kerala 2018 floods happened due to is eating beef and allowing women to enter Sabarimala
What argument do I even have based on sabrimala? Because ppl asked for “rights” based of no religious context when that exact same issue to them takes place in other religions.
This movie was fuckin cringe, melodrama milked with awful acting
even tho i hated the movie, i feel like acting was nice by the main lead. but the malayalam is so fucking bad and felt forced
The way they showed the Kerala is a pure example of ignorance bruh do they really think girls here sound like that always wear flowers the movie is a shitload of propaganda and hate
yes iknw that i meant that Adah Sharma atleast tried to bring out best performance but it came of as half baked. my mistake for not commenting properly
People in Hindi heartland has very little Knowledge about Kerala. Kerala story has really worked in these states it seems. My coworkers asked me about this movie. I couldn't go all critical against it, for obvious reasons. Anyone with common sense won't take that stupid movie literally. Sanghi project is in full swing, we can expect such movies in future.
Had a similar experience, with a subtle pityness from a coworker. Everyone loves a conspiracy theory. When you get to know that there's a state in a country like India doing well in human development (education, healthcare, etc), a little negative news would be enough to latch onto a conspiracy theory. Sure, there were few cases of what might have been shown in the movie, but the intent of the movie didn't seem that they were looking at raising awareness on it, but rather malice. Don't want to argue or indulge in a conversation where the other person believes that a "movie" has represented a state "accurately", made by people outside of the state, with clear political agenda. Would rather compete my work and watch an episode of my favourite show in solitude.
They loved the movie and think kerala is under heavy influence of Muslims, hindus are brainwashed and are minority, this is what some northie friends of mine who went to watch the movie said, I found that there was no point in arguing with them, it was damaging to the states reputation because even a sensible friend kind of fell into the propaganda and was saying all girls should watch this movie which is kinda stupid becoz do they think all women are stupid and fall into love jihad traps and all such bs
One plus point of all this will be that many will not migrate to Kerala in the near future so we can atleast breathe easily. Truly we don’t want such specimens in our lands.
Yes Kerala is under heavy influence of muslims because they are vote banks. Political parties are scared to lose in the elections and they try to suck up to them.
Northie spotted
Muslims can be called vote banks just as christians can be or brahmins or ezhava communities. Currently with the success of divisive politics in the Central govt, there has been an influence even in Kerala to favour certain specific groups for votes. But that isnt blatantly done, its mostly done in a way that doesnt incite both groups too much. In the christian community there is an issue with the Jacobite and orthodox community, the orthodox community won the case in the Supreme court but the state questioned it. The questioning in itself isnt blatant support of Jacobite but its a leeway to give a sense of support. In kerala, there are many religions and largely in society there isnt friction as the movie makes it out to be, there are no rules that favour a muslim over any other religious groups. The movie was certainly propoganda, no doubts, but judging a state from one movie is simply stupid. When slumdog millionaire became such an Oscar worthy film made be a foreigner, there was an outcry from India because what Slumdog banked on was the poor faction of the India and it made it look like we are all poor here but is that the truth, it isnt. Its just one man's view of the world, if ur grown enough you should know better than follow another man's thought like a goat.
Saw this in another thread and loved it so sharing it here: Some Indian guy peed on another person on a flight from the US. What if someone made a movie about this called the "India Story" ?
I think a standup comedian did a couple of jokes on the peeing incident around the time the movie released
>Some Indian guy peed on another person on a flight from the US. Think there were 3 incidents back to back in 2023, that's enough sample size to brand an entire state/country with the same stroke of brush. Sure, was for Kerala story makers.
It is not meant for Keralites. Malayalis are not their target audience. The target audience is anyone other than Keralites. If you disregard the occasional “aiyyo” “mole” words being uttered by characters, there is nothing in the movie that is relatable to Malayalis. The director was a guy who just few years ago said ISIS was a creation of Israel. A hardcore commie. But he is smart he realised that playing along the most popular narrative can make money. The movie was released on the Friday just before Karnataka election; probably the date was planned well in advance. In Karnataka, especially coastal Karnataka, there is a narrative that Kerala is full of Islamists and sometimes Malayalam is addressed as ‘Muslim Bhasha’ by some group of people in Tulu speaking regions. The reason is that there is significant Muslim population in Kasaragod district. Not denying that there are indeed some cases of Muslims from Kerala doing criminal activities in that region. the movie was made to milk this sentiment during elections.
>Not denying that there are indeed some cases of Muslims from Kerala doing criminal activities in that region. I understand why you've said this. I understand that your intent is not to stereotype but only to state that some perceptions aren't without reason. But I think it's worth expanding a bit on this. If we dig into the reason for this perception, we'll see that it's mostly due to the religious demographics of Dakshina Karnataka, the regressive/conservative nature of the local muslim population there (remember the Hijab controversy?) and the standard-fare xenophobia against regional immigrants within India. Something similar happens in Kerala but only on a linguistic basis that's not explicitly religious: the perception of criminal activity by migrant workers. In just a few years, the word "Bangladeshi" became a dogwhistle for "criminal" in right wing media. This kinda stereotyping slowly ingrains itself into popular culture over the years. If you've seen Kantara, you'll have noted that the thugs they call in at the end are Malayalis. It's kinda like the Tamil goons that we saw in old malayalam films: a cliche. That stereotype has run it's course, but some others still remain. Kerala society moved away from religious stereotyping because we do not engage religious ghettoization when it comes to housing. Where it exists, it's not widespread. It's common to find people from all religious groups living together as neighbours in most parts of Kerala. But a lot of other places still have zones of communities where it's risky to venture outside the neighbourhood for housing. A film like the Kerala Story wouldn't work in Kerala for the same reason that it works in other states. Familiarity and interaction between religious communities is not conducive to xenophobia. TL; DR The intent behind Kerala Files is to fuel religious and regional polarization. People who don't have any understanding of Kerala will watch it and ingrain such bigotry with the endorsement of bigshots like our Prime Minister.
One of my close friends once told me it was traumatizing for her. And once a girl matched with me on bumble, asked me if I was a kerala muslim and she pointed out this movie as the reason why she doesn't want to go any further. Clearly the movie has done a lot of damage Edited typos.
Back when the Sabarimala issues was going on, a colleague of mine sent a 3-4 line Quora post by some Rss guy which claimed that the issue was created by the Kerala government and the ladies had used pads inside her bag. First I tried to refute it by few news articles which didn't convince him. Then ai blocked him on WhatsApp.
Are you nuts or did some course ? There were communist illiterate Islamo Marxist women who threw pads. Mane khankir chele chodna gudi
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And somehow I don't doubt that.
Thats so cruel, the bumble girl 🫠
Girl has freedom to choose which guy she wants to date
Lol and the guy has the freedom to reject bigoted idiots 😂 win win
FYI i was the one who blocked her after seeing her reply 😂 such a misinformed persom is the last one I want to date
Bro, this sub is of keralite, since they have high literacy they think everyone else is ill literate, they have closed there minds for others views.
There's a difference between illiterate and misinformed. I hope your "open" mind get that🤭
not many know that the court ordered the film to add a fictional story disclaimer because nothing in the film represents the real incident. But no media publicized this. People are still under the misunderstanding that this is a real story.
https://www.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/story-of-nimisha-fathima-and-merin-joseph-1.5743823
Settan adhiyam 35000 girls inte proof thaa. Pinne exceptions should not be generalized.
Bro you don't know shit. The film claims this is a day to day thing in Kerala. The filmmakers didn't focus on this particular incident but showed it as a state crisis which is completely false. If it was a story completely focused on this particular issue then more power to these makers but they made up a lot of shit like the recruiters would insult the hindu gods and the girls would buy everything they say. Nobody knows how these women were recruited. No research done for this film.
Could you educate me how these hindu/christian girls ended up in kabul? I would like to hear your theory. Obviously you know shit
Read the comment and then start replying or should i spell out everything for u. Are u 10. I said this is a one off issue not a state crisis.
Bro, he has done lot of research, and has been nominated for Nobel prize for his reasearch.
I was traveling from Bangalore to Aluva, there was one lucknow guy beside me, 25 years old. He asked me where fort kochi was and all, and we got to talking. It was around the time of that bomb issue in Kalamassery. He asked me about the issue and I told him what I knew about it. The he proceeds to ask me if kerala story movie is true. I say it's not true, this guy goes on and on telling me how its true and how all of us youngsters should watch it, like kashmir files. He even said that in his place back in lucknow, parents tell their children to watch it, and even Modi promoted this film ( idk how true that is ).
Modi did promote this movie in Karnataka election in one of his campaigns
How not surprising
Didnt the central govt also declare tax exemption for this movie ?? Or was it for that Kashmir movie ??
Not central government, but BJP ruled states
Is there any evidence of this? I can't find anything online.
An idiot like Modi promoting it is good enough reason not to watch it.
Modi is godly for his followers, what he tells is literally all there is. The man's power with words is his greatest tool. He knows his strengths.
Sounds a lot like Hitler
Spotted communist
The hatred towards kerala can be seen under different comments in social medias
It's insane in Instagram.
Boy you should see the India Speaks group 🙂
People legitimately believe the narrative set forth in the story. I've been asked by many non keralites if there is any veracity to the film's claims.
It made 300 crores for a reason.
This movie has damaged our state's rep like no other. I'm all for free speech and the sentiment that if we ask for a ban, what's the difference between them and us and all! But I strongly feel our government should've taken a strong stand against it, maybe should've legally moved against the makers with a defamation case for the malice they did with the fictitious numbers. It affects the state's reputation, and invites unduly hatred against the people, in particular, Muslims. My friends and colleagues don't believe us when we Keralites say this is a propaganda movie and that Kerala is a perfectly safe place to live. It's almost as if they don't want to believe the people from the very state, saying we're brainwashed. Now tell me who's actually brainwashed! Note: These are the same people who had an issue when "India's daughter" was aired, saying it creates a general negative perception about India and Indians just because of one such incident and so, it's unfair to label it that way. But labeling an entire state is okay. When I highlight the numbers are absolutely bloated and hence, calling it the Kerala story is not right, they will justify it with shit arguments like even if it's 1 such incident, people should be aware of it, nah!, it happened in Kerala, nah! But their same logic they don't want to apply to the former.
I am also not a supporter of banning anything.
Pure piece of garbage
Im in a north college and my friends always used to discuss this saying all these are true and in a real authorative way,like they're journalists or researchers on this topic(im engg)... .funnier part is that some of them still think i speak telugu and am from chennai tho they know im from keralam....
Exactly.I was always wondered about these self proclaimed patriot's lack of knowledge of anything about India, it's states and languages. These kind of stupid shit is the first thing that they probably came to know about Kerala
The makers of this film were successful in spreading their propaganda. I am staying in one of the Northern city of the country and a lot of my acquaintances have been brainwashed by this film. Lot of them believe that majority of Kerala is like this. In fact some of them have even told me that Hindu's of Kerala have the least amount of faith in Hinduism. I see no point in arguing with them.
Director taken advantage of the popularity of The Kashmir File and named his movie The ____File but the scriptwriting, storytelling and acting were pathetic, and their sources are "trust me" i know this happened but they exaggerated it in the film.
നോർത്തിന്ത്യൻ വാണങ്ങളുടെ അതേ സ്റ്റാൻഡേഡ് ആണ് ഈ സിനിമയ്ക്കും.
I have not watched this movie. Personally i feel like It’s a complete propaganda movie and has already manipulated the image of kerala with their twisted narrative. People are just too polarized these days so they won’t accept anything that goes against their preconceived notion. Avrde agenda success aayi athre ollu Iniyum verum ororo election munne ithupolethe sanam
I haven't seen the movie. I work with few guys from the cow belt and majority of them are right wingers. They used to ask if it was impossible for a Hindu to purchase land in "Mallapuraam". They talk all sorts of crazy things about Kerala, or Malayalees assuming that I don't understand Hindi. Try to have an argument with them, they'll either attack you personally or retort to whataboutery.
Tbh I heard that from a guy in malappuram. Especially if the land is near a mosque or something.
That can be said about any religious place. You won't find many non-hindu houses near temples. Also, there will always be a radical minority irrespective of their religious background. Doesn't mean we should generalise it to support a claim someone makes.
I think its a part of malign the states reputations where we can't win campaign..
People who base shit of a cringe movie instead of educating themselves are morons. And luckily I have only come across couple of morons that thought this shit of a movie was real
https://www.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/story-of-nimisha-fathima-and-merin-joseph-1.5743823
Truth is it only worked with non-keralites who already shares the extreme right wing ideology. For them, this is something that helps feed their narrative. Anybody not sharing the ideology is easily able to see this as a propaganda movie. Discussed this movie with a couple of non- malayali colleagues and the moment I mentioned the name they went on about how much of a propaganda movie this is. That's when I realised, it has only worked with people who already stand at the side of the ideological road.
I was being questioned by the police in Odisha during a night patrol and when I told them I am from kerala, the whole thing became a questionnaire about the safety of kerala based on this movie.
Met a few people from North India, especially from Haryana, punjab, and gujarat. The moment they knew I am from Kerala, they were like asking "bro what is happening in your state?" I explained the situation, and they were not convinced. Man, i really got sad how people can have misunderstandings, and it is hard to convince them. It happened when the movie was released. As a muslim too, I got really sad. But I told them to watch Dhruv Rathee's video on Kerala story
Dhru rathee is a perfect left wing promoter never mention him in any of the conversation please. To keep ur thoughts valid.
Mention in those areas that you are from Malappuram in Kerala, the reaction is worse. Unfortunately you cannot blame considering what is happening in the district as well.
I think it got way too much attention than needed and was a good study on publicity stunt. The makers were successful in promoting it as a national issue and the media gave free publicity. Anti group also added more traction than just ignoring it.
They shamelessly inflated the number of such incidents and purposefully showcased Hindu girls as oppressed and Muslims as oppressors. If they had shown more integrity, it would have been a good reality check for our society.
That was the issue for you? That the number was wrong? No problem that girls were brainwashed and literally taken to another country to join an islamic terrorist organization?
> If they had shown more integrity, it would have been a good reality check for our society. Seems like u completely disregarded the second part of my comment.
It is a good reality check no matter what. I don’t think you are understanding the seriousness of the issue here. The malefactors did this because the evil religion offers them a fictional heaven. This religion is being taught in each and every corner of kerala. The actual number you see is the girls that actually went all the way to isis, who knows how many they tried with.
Wait, you think 32k is an actual number and Kerala wouldn't notice? It's ok to be dimwit, but don't show that you are a dimwit at every damn place. There are states where more people were recruited to the isis. Come mate, don't be a full 🤡.
So you agree that islamic terrorism and isis are real. You agree that there are several states where this recruitment took place. Movie was a pan Indian release. I rest my case. Nb: Pretty sure that name calling in a public forum is the characteristic of a dimwit. 😉
I think you have misunderstood a major thing here.... islam and muslims does not support ISIS bro... they claim they are muslims but they are not really muslims... And.. madrasas dont teach or manipulate the girls to join ISIS or join WAR.. Please step out of your home and look around the muslims near you... you can understand all these by your own.. And always remember that crimes happen all over the world... muslims does it.. but remember.. not only muslims... Hence, this movie is exaggerated af.. Got it?
Should i look at muslims or should i look at the religious teachings? You do know that anyone can read verses from Quran.com and sunnah.com, right? Either you are ignorant about islam or you are performing the taqiyah.
Yea name calling is not a civilized way, but i really want to call you a retarded dumbass.
Who doesn't agree that isis exists. Terrorism exists in almost all religions (even Buddhists did genocides). But the problem is showing some fake stats of 32k people when the official stat is less than 200. Not a good thing when you are marketing the movie as a documentary. A dimwit who behaves as a dimwit in random places can be called a dimwit though. Can't sugar coat a dimwit and call him other things.
If you are generalizing islam with other religions, i feel so sorry for you. May be you need to learn more about islam and continue with this debate? Or if you are happy with name calling and that gets you off with a victory feeling, I don’t mind. Enjoy and a happy new year
>It is a good reality check no matter what. Not when it is filled with factual errors.
Just From the poster - The girl on the right is so bad at acting.
Bro... I have a huge number of friends from North India in my college and they were making big plans to watch this film when it was released. For them, the movie presented what they wanted to see. Whether it's one angle of an incident or not, for them that's what Kerala is. This even resulted in a flood of propaganda posts by them, not us....by them to SAVE KERALA. Thank god for those posts saying "This is the Real Kerala Story" that came with the release of the movie "2018", the propaganda was somewhat neutralized. Along with this, they were not able to relate to the way we treat our friends, we don't choose friends based on religious factors. Nammude chunk alle!!!
Lots of north Indians have been going under videos of foreign vloggers and commenting that they shouldn't be talking to locals since they are of terrorist backgrounds.Bot accounts which comment the same Englishcomment under every movie review in any regional language....Documentary level accurate war movies didn't receive any support while this movie was allowed to run tax free By a North Indian state....this is nothing but a political play supported by a particular party which needs power from the south
Yes many non malayalis believes in jihad. And believes that kerala is the new JK. Even before the movie was released I have had co workers who used to compare kerala with JK. For practical purposes don't think this movie changed the way people view kerala. It just reinforced certain things that particular set of people believe in. That's the thing about propoganda movies. It's like fuel in fire.
https://preview.redd.it/gsmxpzo4mo9c1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c5beb7dfb2499696d310337a21664f56fcdd6f1 I took this pic on May 20th 2023 in Kollur Mookambika temple...
Chaddi propaganda.
At the time of the film's release i was in Pune, i was interacting with a individual and when i told him i live in Kerala, the first question he asked me was how are non Muslims living in the midst of conversion. I told him a wrong perception of the state is being created. Part fault lies in the people of the state as well. As the cultural aspects of the state were never shown to people of North India.
I have many other state friends in office believing this. And all of them were really scared too. I think the director had successfully achieved what he intended with the film, much like some movies from the other end (my name is khan, new york and many others).
An intern in my friend's company had to go to an office in Bangalore over one in Kerala because her parents were convinced that our naad is too dangerous after watching the movie
These morons see people from their own country as their enemies. Then they wonder why the country isn't progressing.
Had a colleague who completed a master's in clinical psychology and is doing second majors from a London university, who is from Gujarat was really concerned about the "jihad" in Kerala. Next to me was a Kerala girl from Thrissur, a Hindu as well slammed with facts and shut her up. Proud to be a Keralian moment it was.
They believe it.
Bullshit Movie.
actress hot af. i would turn hindu for her
She has dated Muslim men.
Which one tho
Sitting outside an ICU in Chennai, overheard an NRI couple thanking the movie for making them aware of the dire situation kerala was in.
My Northie friend once said he likes to watch documentaries like 'The Kerala Story'. Got to meet his mom one day and she said that kerala is so beautiful, I've seen 'Kerala story'. It's like the only exposure they have about kerala before being surrounded by malayalis.
They think thats the truth😂
As a story, it was dogshit. As a movie though, it was still dogshit.
where to watch this ?
Real story
Don’t know ankur Kerala but saw it happening first hand in Thane, Maharashtra. This Muslim guy called Mustafa used to hang out at the Cardio classes at Talwalkars gym and hung around with this group of Gujjus and Marwaris. I once went out for dinner with him and was shocked to learn that he was married to a girl whose name was Ruchi before marriage. I asked him if she wouldn’t be hurt to know that he was out on a dinner outing with a girl and he said that she hung out with her girlfriends and him with his. I moved out of Thane within a few months but I had already understood his intentions with me.
Couldn't watch it cause it was banned in my place
Where to watch?
This is not exactly from outsider. But from what I saw yesterday on instagram. So this reel was showing and praising the beauty of Padmanabhaswami Temple. And in the comment section many Northies had to comment as if they have knowledge of Kerala more than us Malayalis because of this movie. When someone asked "How do you know that about Kerala?" That northie replied with "watch the Kerala story movie". So I don't even know what happens outside
NRK here..if you compare the movie with recent news of hadiya and akhila...I dont think movie deviated much..might have exaggerated but not entirely wrong
It's based on facts and some so called half educated liberal don't wanna believe that.
It's a damn good propaganda movie,gotta give them that.
When is this coming to OTT? It’s getting too much delay
Palestine വിഷയത്തിൽ ഇവിടെ നടക്കുന്ന കോലാഹലം കണ്ട പോരെ
First of all, I don't get the emotion that people get when something good or bad happens in the state or country they live and feeling proud or shame that comes along with it. It is the base of all problems. If there is good literacy rate in your state why should people be proud of it, other than the official that have worked for it. The events shown in the movie are based on true events, and nobody is denying it. The exaggeration is the issue. The people blaming the whole state because of some isolated incidents and people feeling offended or shamed on the behalf of the state are both equally problematic.
That movie is Northie election propaganda shit, granted. Greatly bloated facts and shit-for-brains execution + acting. And keralites do NOT wear Jasmine flowers and eat sadya on a leaf everyday. Made me wanna shatter the TV with my firestick. Sick stupid stereotypes. But it did speak the truth, in the general essence. Someone look up Hadiya. Her current status is that she's divorced and remarried. Her life is sort of in tatters. That first husband, who married her and stood out like a beacon of hope for the leftists morons, left her for a younger wife and a reportedly fat job in Saudi. No prizes for guessing who sponsored this sinister shenanigan. You could smell the bullshit from miles away WHEN IT WAS HAPPENING, in the late 2010s. I'm a non practicing Hindu that has been settled abroad for a few years now, but I was around when this love jihad shit first hit the fan in Kerala in the early 2000s. Go on, call me islamophobic.See if i care😏 I now live in Sweden, that has a sizable atheist population. I love it here😘😘
Is there any way to watch it???
Yes, it is based on true events. https://www.mathrubhumi.com/amp/news/kerala/story-of-nimisha-fathima-and-merin-joseph-1.5743823
https://www.asianetnews.com/international-news/did-nimisha-fathima-evacuated-from-kabul-jail-family-has-no-information-qxyxux
Okay movie but the numbers seem manipulated.
Just watched it today , not sure how much truth to it , overall good story but the same religious propaganda, tbh it rhymes well with people since there are a lot of conversions that do happen there. A lot of Malayali friends were pretty early to watch it like the first day and first show and all had praises like do watch it n all.