Kerala Story actress Adah Sharma has been making headlines for her performance in the blockbuster film. She has become a household name, thanks to the controversy surrounding the film which propelled it into limelight. The Kerala Story has collected around Rs 300 crores at the box office and is growing successfully. Recently Adah Sharma revealed that people recognize her as Adah, but this is not her real name.
Kerala Story actress Adah Sharma in a conversation with a YouTuber revealed that her real name is too long. Adah Sharma’s real name is Chamundeshwari Lakshmi Narasimhan Sundaresan Iyer. It is the name of a goddess and Ada’s mother is a devotee of the goddess, hence her name. The mother of the actress feels that the actress is like Chamundeshwari.
Adah Sharma changed her name because people found it difficult to say it. So she changed her name to Ada because it is short and sweet.
Meanwhile, Adah Sharma revealed that she is very close to actor Vidyut Jammwal and is closer to him than her family. Both have worked together in films like Commando 3 and Commando 2. Also, they will be seen together in Commando 4.
After four weeks in theatres, The Kerala Story has received massive response and box office collections. It has so far earned Rs 224.97 crore in India.
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About ‘Kerala Story’
‘The Kerala Story’ features actress Adah Sharma as Fathima Ba, a Hindu Malayali nurse who is among the 32,000 women who went missing from Kerala and later joined ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria). Gone. Forced to accept Islam. Also, the film highlights the ‘love jihad’ propaganda, where Muslim men manipulate Hindu girls to convert to Islam and abandon their families.
Soon after the film’s trailer was released, a petition was filed against it on the grounds of ‘hate speech of the worst kind’ and ‘audio-visual propaganda’. Several political leaders criticized the film and claimed that the makers are making false claims that it is a real story and the number of ‘32000 women’ is fake.