Films often attract their fair share of political controversy. However, rarely has a film accused of promoting the politics of resentment been celebrated and denounced almost equally during a pivotal and arguably polarising Lok Sabha election season in Kerala.
The decision of the Syro-Malabar Church in the Idukki diocese to screen the allegedly Islamophobic film, The Kerala Story, as mandatory viewing for Catechism students has had a muted but arguably outsize impact on low-decibel electioneering in the State.
The controversy figured fiercely on social and mainstream media. But, it was largely unspoken at the hustings.
