Vivek Agnihotri’s latest film, Bengal filesThird installment in his controversial ‘files trilogy’ Tashkent files And Kashmir filesA warm political storm has already been provoked before completing its first weekend at the box office. While the film was opened in multiplexes and theaters in India and abroad, it has not been released in any part of Kolkata or West Bengal-a step that has increased in a fully developed political quarrel.
Bengal files spark political firstorm: Vivek Agnihotri’s film released nationwide but blocked in West Bengal
The political drama written and directed by Agnihotri reflects one of the most dark and most debated chapters in the history of India: the great Calcutta killings and Nokhali riots of 1946. Dressing the events as a “Bengali Hindus’ genocide”, the film alleged that these violent episodes were deliberately suppressed or reduced to mainstream stories. With a star cast, including Mithun Chakraborty, Pallavi Joshi, Anupam Kher, Darshan Kumar, Saswata Chatterjee, and Simrat Kaur, the film was estimated to attract attention to his content and its political undertakings.
However, when BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya, the Tinmool Congress government led by Mamata Banerjee, accused the film of informally banning the film, the controversy deepened. Taking X (East Twitter), Malavia wrote: “Bengal files, except for a film, West Bengal and Pakistan on the massacre of Bengali Hindus, have been released worldwide. Mamata Banerjee should wear it as a badge of honor: not only does he humiliate the sacrifice of Bengali Hindus.
Bengal files, leaving a film on the massacre of Bengali Hindus, have been released worldwide, except West Bengal and Pakistan.
Mamta Banerjee should wear it as a badge of respect: not only she has insulted the sacrifice of Bengali Hindus, who fought for her motherland, but they have …
However, the Trinumool Congress has denied any role in the non-relief of the film, insisting that the decision is only with the theater owners and multiplex operators. Party leaders have said that the government has nothing to do with this.
Saying that actress and producer Pallavi Joshi alleged that the West Bengal government, including police officers, threatened the theater owners to stop the screening. He revealed that he had formally appealed to the President of India to ensure the release of the film in the state.
The conflict is over Bengal files Now adds another chapter in the ongoing political battle between BJP and Trinamool Congress, freedom of expression, historical interpretation, and all mutual separation in the debate with electoral situation.
Read: Pallavi Joshi appealed to President Murmu as Bengal files face ‘informal ban’ in West Bengal: “I argue for your intervention to maintain my constitutional rights”
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