History of Kerala: A film about Indian women in the Islamic State is raging

Kerala HistoryImage Source, Sunshine Pictures/YouTube
By Imran QureshiBBC Hindi

Kerala Police have requested d Legal advice on a complaint over a controversial movie teaser in the South Indian state. film called The Kerala Story - an actress claims her The character is among 32,000 women in the state who have been "converted" into Islamic terrorists.

Some state politicians have called for the film to be banned.

A reporter has written to the state's chief minister demanding an investigation.

The office of the Chief Minister referred the letter - written by Arvindakshan BR - to the police.

"The investigation has begun. We have sought a legal opinion on the letter to find out what action can be taken," said Sparjan Kumar, police commissioner of Thiruvananthapuram, the capital. from Kerala.

In the teaser, a woman in a burka says her name is Shalini Unnikrishnan and she wants to become a nurse.

< p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00">"Now I'm Fatima Ba, an ISIS terrorist in a prison in Afghanistan," she says, adding that there are "32,000 girls like [she ] who were converted and buried in the deserts of Syria and Yemen".

History of Kerala: A film about Indian women in the Islamic State is raging
Kerala HistoryImage Source, Sunshine Pictures/YouTube
By Imran QureshiBBC Hindi

Kerala Police have requested d Legal advice on a complaint over a controversial movie teaser in the South Indian state. film called The Kerala Story - an actress claims her The character is among 32,000 women in the state who have been "converted" into Islamic terrorists.

Some state politicians have called for the film to be banned.

A reporter has written to the state's chief minister demanding an investigation.

The office of the Chief Minister referred the letter - written by Arvindakshan BR - to the police.

"The investigation has begun. We have sought a legal opinion on the letter to find out what action can be taken," said Sparjan Kumar, police commissioner of Thiruvananthapuram, the capital. from Kerala.

In the teaser, a woman in a burka says her name is Shalini Unnikrishnan and she wants to become a nurse.

< p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00">"Now I'm Fatima Ba, an ISIS terrorist in a prison in Afghanistan," she says, adding that there are "32,000 girls like [she ] who were converted and buried in the deserts of Syria and Yemen".

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