Kaali controversy

KOLKATA: The controversy over the ‘offensive’ poster of the documentary film Kaali and the subsequent comments from All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) member of parliament from Krishnanagar Mahua Moitra had created a stir in the country. The New Indian visited some of the most famous Kali temples in Kolkata in an effort to understand what […]

DEHRADUN: A case has been registered against the makers of ‘Kaali’, a documentary film, in Haridwar, Uttarakhand. The film landed in controversy for its poster that the director Leena Manimekalai had shared on Twitter. The FIR has been filed in Kankhal police station of Haridwar district under section 295A (Deliberate and malicious acts, intended to […]

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