CAA protest: Malayalam film `Sudani from Nigeria´ crew to boycott National Awards function
(WorldNews India)

The nationwide protest against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is finding resonance in the South Indian film industry. On Sunday, Zakariya Mohammed, director of the Malayalam film ‘Sudani from Nigeria’, which bagged the National Award for the best Malayalam movie in 2018, announced on Facebook that he, along with the film’s screenplay writer and producers, would stay away from the presentation ceremony in New Delhi in protest against the CAA and the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC). The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill - passed by Parliament last week and given assent to by the President - was introduced by the BJP-led NDA to give citizenship to...