West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday announced that the state goverment has decided to ban the film ‘The Kerala Story’ in the state. The decision, Mamata said, was to avoide any incident of hatred or violence and to maintain peace in the state, reported news agency ANI.

“What is ‘The Kashmir Files?’ it is to humiliate one section. What is ‘The Kerala Story?’… It is a distorted story,” Mamata added.

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‘The Kerala Stoery’ is a film that claims to depict the story of several women in the southern state who were converted to Islam and recruited by terror outfit ISIS.

The film has triggered a huge debate with several political leaders terming it a propaganda film. Petitions were filed in the Supreme Court as well as the Kerala High Court demanding that the release of the film be halted.

However, the Supreme Court refused to entertain the plea, while the Kerala High Court said there was nothing objectionable in the film’s trailer to ban its release.

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The makers of the film, who had earlier claimed it portrayed the story of 32,000 women from Kerala, later tweaked the claim to call it the story of three women.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the film peddling a clutch of blatant lies, and said that at first glance, the film appears to peddle lies aimed at creating communal polarisation and spreading hate propaganda against the state.

The film, helmed by Sudipto Sen, released in theatres last Friday. The film’s producer Vipul Shah said the team will take legal action against the West Bengal government’s decision. “If that is what she has done, we will take legal action. Whatever is possible under the provisions of law, we will fight,” he said.