In the film “The Kerala Story” tells that 32,000 girls and women was converted to Islam and sending them to Syria, Afghanistan and other ISIS and Haqqani influenced area to fight and for helping terrorists. This film is also labelled as a true story.



The most controversial episode of this film is the number of 32,000 females.

In an interview on YouTube channel ‘Festival of Bharat’, Sen claims that in 2010, then chief minister Oommen Chandy tabled a report on the floor of the Kerala Assembly that said, “every year approximately 2800-3200 girls were being converted to Islam”. Sen says in the interview, “just calculate this number for ten years and that gives you 32,000 to 33,000 girls” – the number quoted in his film. According to Sen, Chandy denied these figures when Sen questioned him, but he has “the document” to prove his claim.

In Reality, the Claims of the Film and Ground Reality are Very Mismatched

In 2019, then Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy told Parliament in a written reply that “the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the state police forces have registered cases against ISIS operatives and sympathisers, and have arrested 155 accused from across the country so far”.

According to a US State Department report titled ‘Country Reports on Terrorism 2020: India’, “There were 66 known Indian-origin fighters affiliated with ISIS, as of November” (2020)

A 2019 report by the Observer Research Foundation said, “India was thought of by analysts to be fertile ground for the recruitment of foreign fighters for the Islamic State (IS). The country, however, has proven such analysts wrong by having only a handful of pro-IS cases so far.”

(Disclaimer: This report is based on the media sources)