Hold onto your plates, india – kerala just dropped a stink bomb that’s making the whole country gag. Amid the raging row over the sequel to The kerala Story, a scene showing a Hindu girl forcibly fed beef by a Muslim family has already set social media on fire. Then comes the kicker: Kerala’s own minister V Sivankutty struts onto facebook and sneers, “While you eat cow dung, those of us in kerala will eat beef, mutton and chicken.” Classy. Real classy.
Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan wasted no time piling on, blasting the film as “toxic” propaganda designed to spread hatred and paint kerala as a terror hub. He demanded everyone reject any attempt to tarnish the state’s “secular harmony” and “sustainable development” model. Nice words. Shame the minister’s dung-beef flex just torched them.
Social media erupted. women flooded timelines with videos of themselves happily devouring beef and parotta, laughing off the scene as ridiculous. Actor prakash raj posted mouth-watering pics of pork, beef, and fish living happily alongside vegetarian sadya: “The real #KeralaStory is harmony.” Filmmaker anurag kashyap called the movie straight-up propaganda: “Who forces beef like that? Nobody even serves khichdi that way.”
Left outfits DYFI and SFI went full throttle – organising beef festivals with parotta, declaring the film promotes communal hatred and misrepresents God’s Own Country. CPM mp John Brittas said the movie belongs in a “septic tank,” not theatres, while congress leader KC Venugopal accused it of inventing lies to insult and divide Kerala. Both slammed the bjp for awarding the first part and now encouraging more “false stories.”
BJP hit back hard, with state chief rajeev Chandrasekhar accusing Vijayan of disgusting double standards. “Where was Article 19 and freedom of expression when it was ‘love jihad’?” he asked. Selective outrage much?
So here we are: one side screaming propaganda, the other mocking “dung eaters,” while ordinary folks watch their food, faith, and festivals weaponised for votes. Kerala’s famous harmony? Right now it tastes a lot like division – and it’s getting harder to swallow by the minute.
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