The producers of the controversial The Kerala Story changed the film’s trailer on YouTube yesterday (2nd May) after it ran into rough weather for claiming that 32,000 women had left Kerala to join terrorist organisation IS. The latest trailer on YouTube says that the film is “a compilation of true stories of three young girls from different parts of Kerala… Thousands of innocent women have been systematically converted, radicalised and their lives destroyed.”
The film’s first teaser, released in November 2022, claimed that the film presented “heart-breaking and gut-wrenching stories of 32,000 females in Kerala!” That claim set off a storm, with the CPM-led LDF and the opposition UDF demanding a ban on its screening. IUML’s youth wing announced a reward of Rs. 1 crore to anyone who could prove that 32,000 girls had become ISIS members.