FTII Students Condemn National Awards Given to The Kerala Story

Of their assertion, the affiliation additionally make clear the significance of cinema and highlighted how a ‘government-endorsed physique’ is legitimising violence as an alternative of recognising sincere artwork.

“It’s scripting future lynchings, social exclusion, and political othering. It’s telling a billion folks: This hate is appropriate. That is the story we select to reward,” the assertion additional reads. “We refuse to just accept that our craft—the cinema we consider in and are coaching to make—must be lowered to a instrument of state-sponsored communalism. We refuse to just accept that Islamophobia is now award-worthy. And we refuse to be silent because the business we hope to enter is being reshaped to reward lies, bigotry, and fascist ideology. The state should perceive: giving awards to propaganda doesn’t make it true. And we, as college students and residents, is not going to cease calling it what it’s—incitement. Violence,” the assertion concluded.