The Kerala Story

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The Kerala Story

2023

2h 18m

Drama

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Shalini Unnikrishnan leads an ordinary life as a college student in Kerala until her identity, relationships, dreams and faith dissipate in the abyss of religious terrorism.

Shubhra Gupta

The Indian Express

When a film shines a light on different aspects of an issue, it creates space for reflection and conversation, and you come away with food for thought. What about a film which does exactly the opposite?

Rated: 1/5

May 5, 2023

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Nandini Ramnath

Scroll.in

It’s fitting that a film about the dangers of religious indoctrination devotes every one of its scenes to brainwashing its audience.

Nov 27, 2023

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Vinamra Mathur

Firstpost

Director Sudipto Sen and creative director Vipul Amrutlal Shah pick up a bone-chilling subject but The Kerala Story isn't able to chew the meat of its narrative or rise above ordinary.

Rated: 2.5/5

Nov 27, 2023

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Carla Hay

Culture Mix

This timeline-jumping, messy melodrama wants to depict how women become human trafficking victims of terrorists. However, the film does it in an irresponsible and deceptive way. The Kerala Story goes overboard in excusing certain people of certain crimes.

May 23, 2023

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Saibal Chatterjee

NDTV

A film so bad that its incompetence would have provided some entertainment had it not played so loose and fast with facts.

Rated: 0.5/5

May 5, 2023

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Abhishek Srivastava

The Times of India

This thought-provoking film is disturbing and surely manages to leave an impact.

Rated: 3/5

May 5, 2023

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visha

Really bad film ! Showing violence only !! Don’t waste your time and money

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/23/25

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Neha K

There is no smoke without fire. I don't know why people are worried if it's not true story.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

08/15/25

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Rishab P

Wish I could give it a negative rating. If the crew had done AN OUNCE of research they would have quit this film midway. Honestly they should cover this film up and never bring it up again. I wish something else was wrapped up so that director and writer weren't born.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

08/12/25

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Lekshmi P

Misleading movie, baseless and propagates hate for a state. Kerala is noway like this!

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

08/11/25

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Akhil S

Utterly disgusting and waste of time and money. Propaganda at its peak, a tool for hate spreading. It’s dangerous and disgusting. As a film kerala story is a poor entertainer, poorly written screenplay, the acting is bad and artificial and the film cannot deliver anything for the time and money we r spending.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

08/06/25

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Dheeraj K

EVERY HINDU MUST WATCH . 100 % literacy is flex untill our kerala people don't understand the leech which sucks their blood slowly...till everything vanished.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/13/25

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Synopsis

Shalini Unnikrishnan leads an ordinary life as a college student in Kerala until her identity, relationships, dreams and faith dissipate in the abyss of religious terrorism.

Director: Sudipto Sen
Producer: Vipul Amrutlal Shah
Screenwriter: Suryapal Singh, Sudipto Sen, Vipul Amrutlal Shah
Production Co: Sunshine Pictures
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Hindi
Runtime: 2h 18m