The Adimadhyantham-IFFK controversy started off from the fact that the film was initially co-edited by an IFFK official Beena Paul Venugopal . Later the editing work was handed over to another person , for obscure reasons , and the film did not credit Beena Paul Venugopal as a co-editor either . What originated as a credit claim , later led to the expulsion of '' Adimadhyantham '' from the list of films in the competition section of the International Film Festival of Kerala , of which Beena Paul Venugopal is a managing official . This amounted to an unexpectedly huge scandal because '' Adimadhyantham '' was the only Malayalam film selected to the competition section of the 16th IFFK . The expulsion was through the direct intervention of Priyadarshan , chairman of the Chalachithra Academy , and the rejection was defended publicly by K. B. Ganesh Kumar , Minister for Cultural Affairs . This raised a controversy and K. B. Ganesh Kumar , the Minister for Cultural Affairs , claimed that the film was rejected because , only a rough-cut version was submitted . He produced a DVD in the press conference to prove his argument , while the selection committee maintained that a finished film was , in fact , submitted to the committee and that they had seen the complete film before selecting it . This flared up the controversy and the matter was pulled to the High Court of Kerala . The court rejected the plea on technical grounds ( lack of English subtitles during submission of the film , a rule never strictly followed in the preceding years ) . An appeal moved to the Division Bench was also rejected on the same grounds leaving an IFFK without a Malayalam film to compete . Later , upon flaring up of the scandal , K. B. Ganesh Kumar conceded to include the film in the non-competing category , limited to just two screenings . The left oriented cultural organization Purogamana Kala Sahitya Sangham took the issue up and waged a protest at one of the IFFK venues . The issue came up in the open forum discussion on the second day of the festival , and the delegates engaged in heated arguments with Priyadarshan . In the end , Priyadarshan apologised for the problems . After the protests , Adimadhyantham was screened in the festival under " Malayalam Cinema today " section on 13 December 2011 . Prior to that , the film was premiered on 4 December 2011
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