A video showing a huge crowd standing in a line is widely shared on social media, claiming that people waiting to watch the controversial film The Kerala Story. The documentary, released on May 5, 2023, depicts three Kerala women converting to Islam and joining the Islamic State group.
The video is shared on Facebook with a caption: “जरा सिनेमा हाल के नजारे देखो ,ये फ़िल्म तो भारत की युवा पीढ़ी के जागरण का केंद्र बन गयी है लोग फ़िल्म बनाते हैं 100 करोड़ कमाने के लिए “द केरल स्टोरी” बनी है 100 करोड़ लोगों को जगाने के लिए….!! जय श्री राम” (English translation: Just look at the scenes of the cinema hall, this film has become the centre of an awakening of the young generation of India. People make films to earn 100 crore, “The Kerala Story” is made to wake up 100 crore people….!! Jai Shri Ram)
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above claim, and found it to be FALSE.
Performing a Reverse Image Search, we identified a tweet carrying the same viral video, dated March 13, 2022. According to the tweet, a cinema hall in Nagpur shows a large gathering of people to watch The Kashmir Files, a film directed by Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri.
‘The Kashmir Files’, featuring actors Anupam Kher and Pallavi Joshi, was released in theatres on March 11, 2022. The film focuses on the topic of the forced migration of Kashmiri Pandits from the region of Kashmir.
The same video had been uploaded on a YouTube channel on March 13, 2022, with the text, “The Kashmir Files Bharat Mata Ki Jai echoed from Nagpur to Germany.”
We could not verify the exact time and location of the viral video. So, it is sure that the viral claim that the documentary film The Kerala Story attracts huge crowd outside theatre is false.
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