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Sharan Setty
Nov 03, 2022, 05:33 PM | Updated 05:33 PM IST
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Commando and Singh is Kinng fame film producer Vipul Amrutlal Shah had announced his next project called The Kerala Story back in March this year.
Posted from the YouTube page of his production house, Sunshine Pictures, the teaser of the film promises to unravel the story of women of Kerala who were 'trafficked to ISIS and other Islamic war zones’.
In the earlier teaser posted in March, after stating that thousands of girls from Kerala “went missing and never came back home in the last 12 years,” the teaser exhibits a brief video of V S Achuthanandan, the former Kerala Chief Minister, from 2010.
In the video, Achuthanandan is heard saying, “The Popular Front (PFI) is trying to make Kerala a Muslim state. Just like agenda of the banned organisation NDF (National Development Front) their plan is to make Kerala a Muslim state within the 20 years.”
“As per a recent investigation,” revealed director Sudipto Sen, “since 2009, nearly 32,000 girls from Kerala and Mangalore from Hindu and Christian communities have been converted to Islam and most of them end up landing in Syria, Afghanistan, and other ISIS and Haqqani influential areas!”
He lamented that despite these facts, “government is hardly contemplating any definitive action plan” against such sinister international conspiracies led by ISIS-influenced groups wherein “rampant religious conversion through a deep-rooted indoctrination network has taken over Kerala.”
While researching for the script, Sen said that he had travelled across the region and saw the tears of the mothers of the girls. “We found some of them in the jails of Afghanistan and Syria” with no trial whatsoever, revealed Sen. He further divulged the fact that “most of the girls were married to the dreaded ISIS terrorists and have babies with them.”
Producer Vipul Amrutlal Shah called the story “a human tragedy, one that will shake you to the core.” After his research of 3-4 years when Sen approached Shah, the latter said that he ‘was in tears in the first meeting itself and the very same day he decided to make this film’.
“I am glad that we are now progressing with the film and we hope to make a very real, unbiased and true narrative of events,” said Shah.
The latest teaser features 'Hasee Toh Phasee' star Adah Sharma.
Sharan Setty (Sharan K A) is an Associate Editor at Swarajya. He tweets at @sharansetty2.