The Kerala Story

Adah SharmaIndian film actress known for 1920, Heart Attack, Commando and The Kerala Story

• 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?”

  Tomorrow, Today: Adah Sharma on The Kerala Story, Backlash, Threats & Handling Rejection | Shekhar Natarajan | Tomorrow Today (Sep 22, 2026) · Listen from 1:03:42

• 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”

  Tomorrow, Today: Adah Sharma on The Kerala Story, Backlash, Threats & Handling Rejection | Shekhar Natarajan | Tomorrow Today (Sep 22, 2026) · Listen from 1:01:20

• 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”

  Tomorrow, Today: Adah Sharma on The Kerala Story, Backlash, Threats & Handling Rejection | Shekhar Natarajan | Tomorrow Today (Sep 22, 2026) · Listen from 59:13

• 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”

  Tomorrow, Today: Adah Sharma on The Kerala Story, Backlash, Threats & Handling Rejection | Shekhar Natarajan | Tomorrow Today (Sep 22, 2026) · Listen from 57:25