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The Kerala Story: A review #TheKeralaStoryReview #TheKeralaStory

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It tells the story of three girls brainwashed in various ways by Muslims to be used for terrorism in Syria. If a girl was too intelligent, she was drugged. They preached to her if she was gullible.

If she was too stubborn, they drugged her, had sex with her, and photographed her to blackmail them. Drugs were their mainstay to convince them that their actions were entirely justified. Muslims were compensated handsomely with oil money and ample sex thrown in the process.

It is shot intelligently with admirable clarity & unflinching focus, with no silly songs & dream sequences. Makers truthfully displayed everything which happens when you are caught in their jaws. You can escape from a crocodile's mouth but not theirs. It is the main takeaway.

The film gives attention to even minor details. Heroine is named Fatima, incidentally, name taken by the real-life girl Nimisha who is currently in Afghanistan. Kerala produces maximum number of nurses; hence the story is set in a nursing college in Kasargod, a jihadi capital.

The town is in Malabar which bore the brunt of invasions by Hyder Ali & Tipu Sultan 250 years back. Within 2 decades, the father-son changed the demography of region by enforcing conversions. It is in this region Moplah riots happened about a 100years back killing lakhs of Hindus

The locales in the film look authentic. The Afghanistan part is probably shot in Ladakh, but they managed to pull it off. The costumes chosen belong to Kerala, and they spoke Hindi in a Malayalam accent, which made the film more authentic to its title.

All these elements transport you to the barbaric world of Islamic terrorism lurking in God's own country. Film is a more realistic and violent version of underrated Saif Ali Khan Starrer Kurbaan. In the movie, the hero commits suicide at the end and undergoes a change of heart.

Lessons learned from movie:
1. The more hijab you see on streets, the more violent society is. They know it & hence the first point in the conversion is to make a Kafir girl wear a hijab.
2. They will always try to cut you off from your friends & parents once you are in their net

3. Every one of them thinks only of Islam. Everything else is secondary and liable to be destroyed at the first chance. Whether they are doctors, engineers, or even army men, it doesn't matter. The more educated they are, the more fanatic they become.

4. They have planted their men at every govt office at every level. Even when a position is occupied by a non-Muslim, it turns out to be manned by a secular Hindu more eager to do their bidding. Whether it's passport office, police, judiciary, or netas, they can get any work done

5. In the film, characters are always shown spouting rabid AllahHafiz instead of milder KhudaHafiz. In airports, I hear more and more of AH.
6. Women are either sex slaves or baby-making machine. There is no third significance for them. They exist to get beaten or raped or killed

7. They love to spit on Kafirs and their food, hair, and even their dead bodies. Last year, we saw how a top Bollywood film star resorted to spitting on Lata Mangeshkar's dead body.
8. Hindus don't teach their children about their religion, culture and traditions.

8. These kids love to belittle everything associated with their upbringing. It is a harsh truth that needs to be corrected as soon as possible. The onus is on the parents. Consequently, they grow to be secular and woke, and it is they who give 'them' power and strength.

9. Christians are far better than Hindus in inculcating religious values in their children. They go to Church every Sunday and remain connected with their community.
10. They earn money required for conversion activities through drugs, even when it is haram for them.

11. Police would never come to your help.
12. The film has references to Ghazwa-e-Hind where they want to finish the work of Aurangzeb.
13. They are perpetually angry or horny. When they are fornicating with their women, they are increasing their population...

....13... and when they are doing it with enemy community's women, they are destroying it.
14. In the end: Shun them, boycott them is the underlying message.

Film displays no-holds-barred brutality which is disturbing to watch, to say least. And they come in plenty in the film. As they say, it is not for heart patients & pregnant women. Now, if a secular says that Love Jihad is a sham, the film forces you to draw your own conclusions.

The photography is good and the shots are breathtaking. The props are mostly in place. In one scene, even Zakir Naik was shown brainwashing the neo-converts. However, at one place, they erred when they put a dried tree right on the beach to show the forlornness.

The only song in the film is hummable. In a few places, film drag, especially when a girl gives a long lecture to a policewala who keeps sitting dumb-faced. Acting is passable, with the story being a main hero.

The raging controversy about whether there are 32000 missing girls or 3 is good for the film. Any kind of publicity is good publicity, as they say in marketing parlance. Its gist is truth, an absolute and horrifying one. Even when some say it is a propaganda movie, so be it.

The film takes battle in their territory. Let them defend it; let them play the victim card. In the end, they come out as jihadi, which they are.
Go and watch it. Devour it. Imbibe it. Keep the Indian flag high. Else, there will be an ISIS flag soon. Or Al-Qaeda's. Or PFI's.