‘The Kerala Story’ Faces Main Setback as Film Screening Will get Cancelled in UK

UNITED KINGDOM: The Kerala Story, starring Adah Sharma, suffered a serious setback when its UK distribution was cancelled. The British Board of Movie Certification took this measure as a result of the movie was not given an age classification or content material advisory. 

States like West Bengal and Tamil Nadu banned the movie after receiving widespread complaints from residents. Nevertheless, the movie’s robust storyline helped it break into the 100-crore membership on the field workplace. This made it the fourth image this yr to achieve this milestone. 

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The movie carried out remarkably nicely in worldwide markets however trailed behind in america due to our strict requirements. Viewers pre-booked the movie at a fee of 95%, however after they obtained the e-mail, “As a result of lack of age certification for The Kerala Story by the BBFC, we now have needed to cancel the reserving you made, they had been understandably dissatisfied. An entire reimbursement has been issued. We remorse any bother this may occasionally have brought about.” Moviegoers are talking out towards this transfer and demanding a refund instantly. 

The BBFC stated, “The Kerala Story continues to be present process our classification course of. As soon as the movie has obtained a BBFC age ranking and content material recommendation, will probably be out there to be screened in UK cinemas.” 

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In the meantime, Suresh Varsani, director of the film’s UK distributor, 24 SEVEN FLIX4U, raised a criticism stating, “I’m very suspicious that they haven’t given a sound cause. Why do they want extra time after they have had three days? I’ve by no means come throughout a scenario like this the place a movie has not been categorised when it’s meant to be launched. The USA, India, Australia, Canada, and Eire have all handed it. I don’t get what the difficulty is.”

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