‘Is there any restriction?’: Calcutta HC asks Mamata govt over screening of The Bengal Files

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The Calcutta High Court on September 23 directed the Mamata Banerjee government to clarify its stand on the screening of filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri’s The Bengal Files. The High Court has directed the state to file its clarification by next Friday. Earlier this month, Justice Amrita Sinha of the Calcutta High Court dismissed a plea filed by the grandson of freedom fighter Gopal Chandra Mukherjee, popularly known as ‘Gopal Patha’. The Bengal Files revisits the August 1946 Calcutta killings, a blood-soaked chapter in India’s history triggered by the Muslim League’s call for Direct Action Day. It is the third part of Vivek Agnihotri’s trilogy, following The Tashkent Files (2019) and The Kashmir Files (2022).