The figures posited in the film also exceed the entire strength of the ISIS. The Observer Research Foundation and Indian government have stated that no more than 100-200 Indians have joined the group from the entire country, with people from Kerala accounting for less than a quarter of them. While the events portrayed in the film are loosely based on the accounts of three women from Kerala, namely: Nimisha Nair, Sonia Sebastian, and Merin Jacob, who converted to Islam and traveled with their respective husbands to Afghanistan to join the ISIS between 20, the claimed figures in the film are wildly inaccurate, being based on mistranslations, misquotes and extrapolations from misrepresentations of unrelated statistics. In 2018, he had directed a documentary on what he claimed to be the involuntary mass-conversion of 32,000 Hindu and Christian girls to Islam as part of an "international conspiracy" to render Kerala an Islamic state. Sen, the director of the film, has made such claims for years. She claimed to be one of 32,000 girls from the Hindu and Christian communities, who are missing from Kerala and have been recruited into the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) after being converted to Islam. The teaser released on 3 November 2022, featured the character of Fathima Ba, a Hindu Malayali nurse who had converted to Islam and joined the ISIS, before ending up in an Afghan jail. The makers of the film have claimed that the film is the true story of an instance of " love jihad", a Hindutva conspiracy theory that non-Muslim women are targeted for conversion to Islam through marriage as an international plot by Muslims to alter India's demographics. The Kerala Story is captioned as being based on real-life stories, while the statistics shown are not backed by any real evidence. Prior to its domestic release, the film went through CBFC scrutiny and received an adults only classification following a number of requested changes. The digital streaming rights of the film was purchased by ZEE5. The film was produced by Vipul Amrutlal Shah, who is also the creative director of the film. Adah Sharma as Shalini Unnikrishnan / Fatima Ba.She was eventually manipulated into joining the ISIS and ended up imprisoned in Afghanistan. Shalini Unnikrishnan, a woman who converted to Islam, shares her harrowing journey of aspiring to become a nurse, only to be coerced by extremist groups in College who posed as friends. The film has also faced protracted litigation and protests, primarily in Kerala, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu. The Kerala Story was heavily promoted by the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which leveraged the film in its campaigning for the Karnataka assembly election, which it eventually lost. Film critics however, accorded it overwhelmingly negative reviews, characterizing the work as Islamophobic propaganda. The Kerala Story was released in theatres on, and become the second highest grossing Hindi film of 2023. Marketed as a true story, the film is premised on the Hindutva conspiracy theory of " love jihad", and falsely claims that as many as 32,000 women from Kerala have been converted to Islam and joined the ISIS. The plot follows a fictional storyline of a group of women from Kerala who are coerced into converting to Islam and joining the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). It stars Adah Sharma, Yogita Bihani, Sonia Balani, and Siddhi Idnani. The Kerala Story is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Sudipto Sen and produced by Vipul Amrutlal Shah.
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