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Is The Kerala Story a True Story? Yes, ‘The Kerala Story’ is inspired by a true story. Or rather, as the opening scene in the film puts it, “by many true stories.” Written by director Sudipto Sen, along with Suryapal Singh and Vipul Amrutlal Shah, the story is narrated through a series of flashbacks by Fatima Ba (Adah Sharma), who belonged to a Hindu Brahmin family before her conversion to Islam and is currently imprisoned in a jail in Afghanistan. The film describes how three nursing students from Kerala are allegedly brainwashed by an extremist group and made to believe that Islam is the only true guiding light for them. The justification for the fight for Islam soon comes after, and they are sent to train with ISIS. Though there have been several reported cases of Indian Muslims leaving the country to join ISIS, the film’s factual claims have been questioned by many in the Southeast Asian country. The most controversial of these claims is that nearly 32,000 women have gone through forced conversion and been sent to Syria to join ISIS. However, several prominent Indian news channels and publications use the data from the US Department of State’s Bureau of Counterterrorism’s It is a number that is not likely to have jumped so exponentially to a whopping 32,000 since 2020, as ‘The Kerala Story’ claims. The film’s director, Sudipto Sen, revealed in an When asked about the allegations that have been made against him and his film of spreading misinformation, the director said...

Those who have been reading newspapers/magazines for years, they have read the stories of brutality of ISIS, have also seen them in the media. They know what sex slaves are, how they are inhumanly raped by dozens of people one after the other. Under the Taliban ideology, how people have been punished publicly, sometimes by chopping off their hands and legs and sometimes by shooting them. The veracity of these reports was never questioned. Why, then, has there been a hue and cry in the political circles when the same scene has been shown in the film ‘The Kerala Story’ quoting a converted Indian girl? This is when, even today, an unfortunate victim is lying in a cell waiting to return to the country. The spine-chilling tale of ‘The Kerala Story’ focuses on four girls who are roommates in a nursing college. Among them, Shalini Unnikrishnan, Geetanjali and Nima Mathew are brainwashed by a student named Asifa. Asifa is an agent of ISIS, whose job is to convert girls and send them to Syria. She sets a trap for all three of her roommates but Nima rejects her radical thinking. Shalini is most impressed by Asifa. Asifa’s cousin impregnates Shalini in a trap of love and absconds. Then Shalini alias Fatima Ba’s ‘Nikah’ is read with someone else and she is sent to Syria. Gitanjali also sends her nude photos and videos to her alleged lover due to her addiction to drugs. When she does not agree to convert to Syria despite threats, then she is forced to commit suicide by making these vid...

The Kerala Story Plot Summary The Kerala Story follows the story of three Indian girls, Shalini, Geetanjali and Nimah who fall prey to religious indoctrination by Asifa, a member of an Islamic Organization. Shalini and Geetanjali end up converting to Islam from Hinduism. After Ramiz impregnates Shalini, (now Fatima) and leaves the country, she is forced to marry Ishaaq. Ishaaq used to be a Catholic man but has now converted to Islam. Shalini is promised to be taken to Syria when the pastor claims that Allah will only forgive her sins in Syria. On her way there, Shalini is first taken to Sri Lanka, where she learns that Geetanjali has commit suicide and Nimah was gang-raped for not converting to Islam from Christianity. What happens after Shalini/Fatima leaves Sri Lanka? From Sri Lanka, Shalini is taken to a Pashto village. There, Shalini (as Fatima) starts doubting Ishaaq’s intentions. The two make the journey to Syria through Afghanistan. Shalini is then taken to an ISIS hideout in Afghanistan. Ishaaq starts trying to physically abuse and tame Shalini into complying with him. Despite her being heavily pregnant, Ishaaq rapes Shalini before leaving for a mission on his own. Shalini is all by herself and tries to escape but witnesses a woman and her husband being brutally punished for breaking Islamic traditions. A woman named Shazia helps Shalini and takes her home. She tells Fatima that leaving the colony or breaking the laws is punishable and that she’s the commander’s wi...

The Kerala Story opened in theatres on Friday, May 5, but the film has been making headlines ever since the release of its trailer. Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has called the film a ‘product of the Sangh Parivar’s lie factory,’ while Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the film shows the ugly truth of terrorism. In the journey to its release, The Kerala Story has seen numerous petitions in several courts seeking to stall its screening. But having braved all, how has the film really fared? Let’s find out. The Kerala Story revolves around the life of Shalini Unnikrishnan (Adah Sharma), a young woman from Kerala from a middle class family. Like many middle class women in Kerala, Shalini enrols herself in a nursing course in Kasaragod. There, she finds friends in her roommates Asifa (Sonia Balani), Geetanjali (Siddhi Idnani), and Nimah (Yogita Bihani). Things start off happy for Shalini before Asifa entraps her and her three friends into a web of manipulation. Pit against all the travails of being a woman in semi-urban Kerala, Shalini and Geetanjali find a ready solution to their problems – offered by Asifa – located in conversion, and eventually subscription to the cause of the Islamic State, a terror group. The narrative hits hard for its focus on a subject that has often been kept at bay for its incendiary potential. Director Sudipto Sen, who had earlier made a documentary on the same subject titled In The Name of Love, is now armed with fictional devices that enab...