Kochi: CPM state secretary M V Govindan on Tuesday alleged that the film ‘The Kerala Story’ was an attempt of BJP and RSS to poison the minds of the people.

The producer Vipul Amrutlal Shah rejected the allegations that the film is funded by BJP, saying they have “nothing to do with any political party” and anything spoken about the film without watching the film is “conjecture”.

Shah told this PTI over phone. “We will choose not to respond to any political party. We are filmmakers and we have nothing to do with any political party stand,” the producer added. The claim in the film’s first teaser, released last November, of 32,000 women from Kerala joining ISIS had set off a storm.

The Hindu Seva Kendra founder Pratheesh Viswanath had offered Rs 10 crores just to prove that no one from Kerala has gone to Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

The state general secretary of the Indian Union Muslim League’s wing Muslim Youth League, PK Firoz, said on Tuesday, that the filmmakers changed the film’s trailer just because of the strong opposition from Kerala against the Sangh Parivar’s propaganda. Lawyer and actor C Shukkur wrote on Facebook that he would give Rs 11 lakh to anyone who names at least 32 Kerala women who were converted, and then joined ISIS.

Later blogger K Nazeer Hussain also said he would “give Rs 10 lakh to anyone who can produce evidence that women were converted and forced to join the Islamic State”.