HC issues notice to CBFC, producers of film Kerala Story 2 - Goes Beyond

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The Kerala High Court has issued announcement to the producers of the Hindi diagnostic movie Kerala Story 2 - Goes Beyond and the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), successful effect to a plea that challenged the issuing of censor certificate to the film.

The movie is scheduled to beryllium released connected February 27. A Bench of Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas issued the announcement connected a plea for an interim enactment by Kannur nonmigratory Sreedev Namboodiri who alleged that the certificate was issued without complying with the provisions of the Cinematograph Act, 1952. He said that the film’s teaser and trailer represent narratives involving women from aggregate States, though the rubric refers to ‘Kerala Story’, frankincense associating alleged incidents of coercion and forced conversion exclusively to the State.

Referring to the archetypal movie successful the series, The Kerala Story, which generated ‘serious contention owed to mendacious claims’, helium alleged that the upcoming movie has the imaginable to stigmatise an full determination population, disturb nationalist bid and incite communal and spiritual disharmony. Despite these, certification was given, without decently examining its interaction connected nationalist order, decency and morality, aspects mandated successful the Cinematograph Act.

Moreover, the concluding statements successful the teaser and trailer telephone for retaliatory action, and creating a existent and imminent apprehension of instrumentality and bid issues, helium said. The substance has been posted for proceeding connected Tuesday.

Published - February 19, 2026 08:38 p.m. IST

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