A petition was today filed in the Kerala High Court alleging that Kamal-directed Malayalam film Aami based on controversial writer late Madhavikutty, was sending a message favoring ‘love jihad’.
Aami is an upcoming 2018 Malayalam-language Indian biographical film written and directed by Kamal. It is based on the life of writer Kamala Surayya. Madhavikutty had converted to Islam and took the name of Kamala Suraiya. The film stars Manju Warrier as Surayya, along with Murali Gopy, Tovino Thomas, and Anoop Menon.
In his petition, lawyer K P Ramachandran sought a direction to the Censor Board to ensure that the upcoming movie would be certified only after making sure that it picturized the real life of Madhavikutty.
“The film was directed by omitting the real-life incidents of Madhavikutty, with a view to justifying ‘love jihad. Such a film comes to the fore in the wake of such cases (of love jihad) pending before the apex court and the NIA investigating such cases,” the petition said.
Ramachandran argued that Kamal, director of the film, is often depicted as a pro-radical faction of the Islamic society.
“The conversion of Madhavikutty into Islam was the beginning of love jihad in Kerala. Love jihad is the grave menace the society faces in the southern state today,” he alleged.
“Now the well-oiled machinery are working for meeting the said end. The film Aami is intended to be a catalytic agent for the said process,” Ramachandran said.
The petitioner also alleged that the movie was made to re-write the history and twist the narrative according to the director’s whims and fancies under the guise of freedom of expression.
Even if Aami is exhibited in cinema theatres, the wrong and contradictory picturisation of Madhavikutty and justifying the forceful religious conversion would certainly inject a wrong message into the minds of audiences, he added.
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