Vipul Shah's The Kerala Story to deal with trafficking of girls from state

Filmmaker and producer Vipul Amrutlal Shah is backing The Kerala Story, which deals with trafficking of over 30,000 girls from Kerala who were reportedly taken to ISIS-held regions and war zones over the past decade. 

Shah has brought Sudipto Sen on board to direct the film. The helmer has made a name for himself in the parallel or unconventional cinema. Some of his films include The Last Monk (2006), Lucknow Times (2015), Aasma (2018) and the upcoming movie Battle Of Saraighat (2022). 

The announcement video starts with a texts that reads, “If your daughter doesn’t return home till midnight, how would you feel? In Kerala, thousands of girls went missing and never came back home in the last 12 years.” 

The video also features a statement from the former chief minister of Kerala VS Achuthanandan in 2010, which says, “The Popular Front [an extremist Islamic organization] is trying to make Kerala a Muslim state, just like [the] agenda of the banned organization NDF [National Development Front]. Their plan is to make Kerala a Muslim state within 20 years.” 

The content and overall feel of the announcement video brings to mind The Kashmir Files.