My first question is, why is the film titled The Kerala Story 2 Goes Beyond? It is a misguiding and wrong title for a film in which of the three female protagonists, Hindu, and victims of the entire narrative, only one is a Kerala girl preparing for her UPSC exams. The other two are from Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. “Goes Beyond” what? The fake stories of forced conversions unspooled in The Kerala Story? The inhuman torture and gruesome caging of the three unsuspecting young girls who fell in love with three young men without even guessing their intentions? And what, exactly, pray their intentions were? Only conversion? Or, prostitution for huge amounts of money, more if the girl was a Hindu Brahmin and less if she came from a lower caste? Why is conversion necessary to run a prostitution racket?

The teenaged girl Divya from Rajasthan who is crazy about performing erotic dances for video and has an increasing number of hits wishes to run away because her mother is against her erotic dances in skimpy dresses for mobile videos. She is not really in love with Faizan. She runs away with him just to free herself from her parents but is reduced to severe torture by her husband who breaks down her microphone and says “no reels in our family.” When she is pregnant, in he walks with his second wife, younger than Divya and originally a Hindu.

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The javelin thrower young girl from Madhya Pradesh with her father as her coach, falls in love with a Muslim boy who shows keen interest in her sport and promises to back her in her attempts to compete at the Nationals. Soon, he breaks her javelin sticks and commands her to stop dreaming and begin to live like a pious, Muslim wife. She is reduced to prostitution while her husband pockets the earnings. Don’t many non-Muslim young men behave identically?

Surekha, the girl from Kerala is the strongest in her revolt against being forced to live with a........

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