"In Kerala, thousands of young girls went missing and never came back home in the last 12 years," the trailer of The Kerala Story says.
Filmmaker Vipul Amrutlal Shah and writer-director Sudipto Sen have teamed up to tell what Shah calls as a story of "human tragedy, one that will shake you to the core.
The trailer then goes on to show a speech by former Kerala chief minister V. S. Achuthanandan, even as another text, "The Popular Front is trying to make Kerala a Muslim state just like agenda of the banned organisation NDF. Their plan is to make Kerala a Muslim state in 20 years," appears.
According to the trailer, the movie is "based on the true stories of about 32,000 girls."
The trailer also claims that thousands of girls have been trafficked to ISIS and other Islamic war zones in the last 10 years .
"When Sudipto came and narrated it to me along with his research of over 3-4 years, I was in tears in the first meeting itself. That was the very day I decided to make this film," Shah has been quoted as saying.
Sudipto Sen said statistics reveal that since 2009, nearly 32,000 girls from Kerala and Mangaluru, from Hindu and Christian families have been converted to Islam and most of them end up in Syria, Afghanistan or other such areas.
"The government is hardly contemplating any definitive action plan against such huge international conspiracies led by ISIS-influenced groups," he claimed, according to media reports.
