What Adah Sharma has said about The Kerala Story

Sharma maintains that The Kerala Story is not political but a human story about women's rights being taken away.

“for me it's a story it's a human story it's about feminism it's about women not having their rights”

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Sharma argues that a film looks like propaganda to those unwilling to hear the other side of a story.

“something will always look like it's propaganda for you if you don't want to hear that side of the story and you only want to hear your side”

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Sharma recounts that her phone number was leaked on a prostitution website the day before The Kerala Story released.

“My number got leaked on a prostitution website with my pictures and a raid card also on all the things that I would do with my number”

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Sharma objects to the public debate over the '32,000' figure, saying it reduced abused women to numbers.

“you're talking about women who are being raped and abused and this is how we talk counting them like uh Chickens, right?”

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