AR Rahman shares true 'Kerala Story' incident amid backlash over propaganda film

Amid the 'The Kerala Story' row, music maestro AR Rahman shared a video of a Hindu wedding being performed inside a mosque in the state of Kerala.

Hyderabad: The Mozart of Madras has shared a video of a wedding being performed with all the Hindu customs inside a mosque in Kerala, in the midst of the controversy building up against the Hindi film 'The Kerala Story'. The Oscar winning musician weighed in to show how love can heal humanity.

While sharing the video on his Twitter handle, Rahman wrote, "Bravo 🙌🏽 love for humanity has to be unconditional and healing ❤️‍🩹". The video of the wedding was shared by a Twitter user with the caption "Here is another #KeralaStory".

AR Rahman shared the post of the Hindu wedding of the couple Anju and Sharath that took place inside a mosque in the year 2020. The wedding was conducted as per Hindu rituals and was solemnised in the mosque by a Hindu priest after the mother of the bride approached the mosque committee as she lacked to fund the wedding. The family which had lost its patriarch recently lacked resources. Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan at that time termed the wedding “an example of unity from Kerala”. “Congratulations to the newlyweds, families, mosque authorities and people of Cheravally,” he tweeted.

Directed by Sudipto Sen, 'The Kerala Story' has received heavy backlash from the ruling Left-wing front in Kerala and the Congress party elsewhere over its exaggerated claims of 'approximately 32,000 women' who went missing from the state due to having been converted to Islam and being trafficked to join ISIS. The Congress and CPI(M) in Kerala have damned these claims as exaggerations and misrepresentations of the truth. Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor also criticised the makers of the movie.

Meanwhile, the makers of the movie including director Sudipto Sen and producer Vipul Amrutlal Shah claimed that the story is based on true events. However, the makers recently altered the stats '32,000 women' to '3 women' in the trailer description of the movie, backing off from their fictitious figure. The Supreme Court Wednesday refused to entertain any petitions regarding the film and the movie is set to hit the screens on Friday.