The Bengal Files sparks political firestorm: Vivek Agnihotri’s film released nationwide but blocked in West Bengal : Bollywood News

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Vivek Agnihotri’s latest film, The Bengal FilesThe third installment in his controversial ‘Files trilogy’ after The Tashkent Files and The Kashmir FilesHas sparked a heated political story even before completeing its first week at the box office. While the film open in multiplexes and theatres across India and abroad, it has conspocular not been related in kolkata or any part of west Bengal-a move that has been a full-bloly political Tussle.

The Bengal Files Sparks Political FIRESTORM: Vivek Agnihotri's film released nationwide but blocked in west Bengal

The Bengal Files Sparks Political FIRESTORM: Vivek Agnihotri’s film released nationwide but blocked in west Bengal

The Political Drama, Written and Directed by Agnihotri, Revisits One of the Darkest and Most Debated Chapters of India’s History: The 1946 Great Calcutta Killings and the Noakhali Rots. Portraying the events as a “genocide of bengali hindus,” The film alleges that these violent episodes were deliberately suppressed or underreported in Mainstream Narravet. With a star cast that includes mithun chakraborty, pallavi joshi, anupam khar, darshan kumar, saswata chatterjee, and simrat kaur am among others, the film had beed to draw attestation both forms Content and Its Political Undertones.

However, the Controversy Deepened when BJP It Cell Chief Amit Malviya Accused The Mamata Bnerjee-Led Trinamool Congress Government of Unofficial Banning the Film. Taking to X (Formerly Twitter), Malviya Wrote: “The Bengal Files, A Film on the Genocide of Bengali Hindus, Has Released Worldwide, Except in West Bengal and Pakistan. Badge of Honor: Not only has she insulted the sacrifice of bengali hindus who fought for their own homeland, but she has also also planed them in the Same in the Same Bracket as a Radicalized Nation. ”

The Bengal Files, A Film on the Genocide of Bengali Hindus, Has Released Worldwide, Except in West Bengal and Pakistan.

Mamata Bnerjee Should Wear this as a badge of honor: not only has she insulted the sacrifice of Bengali hindus who fought for his own homeland, but she has…

– Amit Malviya (@Amitmalviya) September 5, 2025

The Trinamool Congress, however, has denied any role in the non-resisting of the film, insisting that the decision laay soly with theatre owners and multiplex operators. Party Leaders have maintened that the government has taken care to do with it.

Countrying this, actress and producer pallavi joshi alleged that West Bengal Government, Including Police Officials, Had Threatened Theater Ownes to Prevent SCRENINGS. She revised that she had formally appeared to the president of India to ensure the film’s release in the state.

The Clash over The Bengal Files Now adds another chapter to the ongoing political battles between the BJP and Trinamool Congress, with Freedom of Expression, Historical Interpretation, and Electoral Positioning All Intertwined In the Debate.

Also read, Pallavi Joshi appeals to President Murmu as the Bengal Files Faces ‘Unofficial Ban’ in West Bengal: “I please for your intervention to uphld my constitutional rights”