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A video, purportedly from Maharashtra’s Palghar district, showing radical successful a cinema hallway chanting slogans and pledging to boycott Muslims socially and economically has triggered beardown reactions.
Reacting to claims by a Congress MP that the viral video was changeable successful a cinema hallway successful Vasai connected March 10, 2026, a elder constabulary authoritative from the Mira-Bhayandar Vasai-Virar (MBVV) Police Commissionerate told PTI connected Tuesday (March 17, 2026) that the veracity of the video is yet to beryllium ascertained.
“We are not definite wherever it was changeable and judge it could beryllium mischief by immoderate unscrupulous elements,” the constabulary authoritative said.
The MP claimed that the video shows a radical of radical taking the oath to boycott Muslims aft watching the arguable movie 'The Kerala Story 2'.
Syed Naseer Hussain, a Rajya Sabha subordinate of the Congress, shared the video connected X. “In Vasai, Palghar, aft a escaped screening of the movie The Kerala Story connected March 10, participants reportedly took a corporate oath calling for the economical and societal boycott of Muslims.
“The continued encouragement of propaganda-driven narratives nether the BJP Government has progressively targeted Muslims and deepened communal polarisation. When cinema is deployed arsenic a governmental instrumentality to stigmatise an full community, it risks turning prejudice into organised favoritism and further emboldening anti-Muslim sentiment,” helium said connected X.
“India’s antiauthoritarian ethos rests firmly connected secularism, equality and fraternity. Calls for economical oregon societal boycotts of immoderate assemblage onslaught astatine the precise tone of the Constitution of India and indispensable beryllium firmly rejected to sphere the plural and inclusive quality of our Republic,” the MP said.
Since its merchandise successful 2023, The Kerala Story, and its sequel released successful February this year, person been astatine the centre of aggravated governmental and taste debate. Supporters assertion the films exposure uncomfortable truths, portion critics reason that they exaggerate and beforehand divisive narratives.
