Topic: Beemapally

The Beemapally police firing which resulted in multiple deaths including that of a 14-year-old Muslim boy is the inspiration behind the movie. Ever since the movie's release, there have been criticisms against the distortion of the actual events to favour a state narrative about the police killings. Hence, the tail-end is the final draw from the director to hold together a technically good movie with a weak script, with an even weaker political understanding.

Straight to the facts, the aforementioned housing scheme for fishermen families was originally conceived in 2015 as beneficial to the people of certain localities deemed to be vulnerable to coastal hazards.  The Thiruvananthapuram District Collector's draft report submitted to the Department of Fisheries in fact starts with the village of Beemapally - the Muslim fisher ghetto - and proposes to include sixty-two families from the locality.