When the first teaser of Sudipto Sen's The Kerala Story dropped, it claimed that the story was a true account of 32,000 innocent women from Kerala who was trapped through marriage and inducted in ISIS, with Adah Sharma's character being one of them. However, many discounted the claims of the makers, saying that these numbers aren't verified and not even the government of India has put out such figures. From Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan to prominent journalists and politicians, including Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, had called out The Kerala Story for their allegedly fallacious claims. The Kerala Story: Muslim Youth League Leader Offers Rs 1 Crore Prize Award To Prove Adah Sharma-Starrer’s Claim That 32,000 Women From the State Joined ISIS.

The director Sudipto Sen hasn't offered any evidence regarding how he came with such numbers, but he asked the detractors to watch the film before coming to any conclusions, as there is a seven year 'research' involved. That said, Twitterati is now pointing out that the recently launched trailer of The Kerala Story has dropped the '32,000 women' to being about the story of 'three women' (even though the poster shows four women!).

Here's How Twitterati Reacted:

'Silently Changed the Description'

'Propaganda Movie Teaser'

'Radicalisation is a Fact'

'Vilification of Kerala'

At the time of writing this article, there is a plea filed in the Kerala High Court seeking stay on release of the film. The Kerala Story is scheduled to arrive in theatres on May 5.

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