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. 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 journey of aspiring to become a nurse, only to be coerced by extremist Muslims in her college who posed as friends. The film has also faced protracted litigation and protests, primarily in Kerala, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu. However, film critics accorded it overwhelmingly negative reviews, characterizing the work as Islamophobic propaganda. It was heavily promoted by the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which leveraged the film in its campaigning for the Karnataka assembly election. The Kerala Story was released in theatres on, and became 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 thousands of Hindu women from Kerala have been converted to Islam and recruited in ISIS. The plot follows 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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