Makers of ‘The Kerala Story’ brought 26 survivors who were allegedly radicalized by the ISIS sympathisers during a press conference in Mumbai on May 17. Speaking to the media, Vipul Amrutlal Shah said, “When Sudipto dada came to me and narrated this story. I was compelled to do this film, I felt if we are not going to tackle these subjects and we knew the challenges. We knew on that when we started that we will be labelled as a propaganda film.”