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BJP's I-T department head Amit Malviya in his latest Twitter post claimed that despite the Supreme Court lifting the ban on 'The Kerala Story' in West Bengal, not a single theatre in the state capital Kolkata is screening the movie..
The Supreme Court had overturned a West Bengal government ban on the movie and its distributors had tried to interest theatre owners in picking it up, without much success till now..
Lifting the ban on 'The Kerala Story', the Supreme Court allowed its screening with a disclaimer that the movie was a "fictionalised version" and there was no authentic data on claims on the number of women who converted to Islam...
"After the Supreme Court lifted ban on The Kerala Story in West Bengal, not one theater in Kolkata is screening the movie, when they were all running houseful before Mamata Banerjee clamped down..
Earlier on May 12, the Supreme Court had pulled up the West Bengal government over its decision to ban 'The Kerala Story' in the state..
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