Overview
- Sen, in interviews published Wednesday, said producer Vipul Amrutlal Shah lied about why he left the sequel and that he refused to base the film on unverified 'WhatsApp forwards.'
- He said the break came after the project widened beyond Kerala to Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, which he had not researched to the same depth.
- Sen described spending a decade reporting in Kerala and said he could defend every line about that state but not claims about other regions.
- He added that he did not like the sequel and rejected the term 'love jihad,' saying the problem is coercive conversion rather than interfaith marriage.
- Reports have also cited Shah’s counter that a draft script by Sen was 'trashy,' a disputed claim that reflects the wider tug-of-war between producer-led scale and a director’s demand for verified sourcing.