Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri, whose recent films have often courted controversies, has stirred another one with his latest, ‘The Bengal Files’.Written and directed by Agnihotri, and starring Mithun Chakraborty, Anupam Kher, and Pallavi Joshi, the film narrates the horrors of communal violence in Calcutta (now Kolkata) during the Muslim League’s Direct Action Day on August 16, 1946, when large-scale riots between Hindus and Muslims left thousands dead and the city scarred by unprecedented bloodshed.
Now, after the release of the trailer of the film, slated for a September 5 release, Shantanu Mukherjee, the grandson of Gopal Chandra Mukherjee, popularly known as Gopal Patha, who led Hindu resistance groups during the Direct Action Day riots, has filed an FIR against the filmmaker.
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