The Bengal Files Cast/Actors: Mithun Chakraborty, Anupam Kher, Pallavi Joshi, Darshan Kumar, Puneet Issar, Madalsa Sharma, Namashi Chakraborty, Saswata Chatterjee, Simratt Kaur Randhawa, Priyanshu Chatterjee, Rajesh Khera, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Sourav Das, Eklayva Sood & Others
The Bengal Files Movie Director: Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri
The Bengal Files Production House: Abhishek Agarwal Arts & I Am Buddha Productions
The Bengal Files Movie Release Date: 5th September, 2025
The Bengal Files Movie Available On: Theatrical Release and (likely to be released on ZEE5 OTT Platform)
The Bengal Files Released/Available In Languages: Hindi, Bengali & Telugu
The Bengal Files Movie Runtime: 3h 20m
The Bengal Files Critic Review:
Sequences that stun and performances that force a watch:
The humiliation of CBI officer Shiva Pandit (Darshan Kumar) in Husseini House, on the orders of a weak-kneed senior (Puneet Issar).
Contrast it with an earlier Zanjeer moment when Shiva crisply tells off Husseini’s goon that he hasn’t been given permission to sit.
The dining table cool of criminal Sardar Husseini (Saswata Chatterjee) with elegant wife (Madalsa Sharma) playing gracious hostess, the underlying menace palpable.
The goonga pagal (Mithun Chakraborty) as his story seeps out, a piercing moment when he helplessly tells Shiva that he can’t talk. Tongue cut off, castrated, yet the fire burns.
The public lynching of Gandhian Judge Banerjee (Priyanshu Chatterjee) even as he defines equality and justice while Ghulam (Namashi Chakraborty) kicks on mercilessly.
The undying spirit of Chaudhry Kaku (Dibyendu Bhattacharya) in his guillotine moment at Noakhali when Ghulam demands, “Bol, Pakistan zindabad”.
Bharati both as today’s wrinkled, white-haired Maa (Pallavi Joshi) and as pretty, spirited Bharati Banerjee (Simratt Kaur Randhawa) wearing Bengali pride in 1946. “What Bengal thinks today, the rest of the country thinks tomorrow…”
The controlled monstrosity of Ghulam when he looks at Bharti and suggests nikkah and the new name Ayesha Jahan.
The pain of Gandhi (Anupam Kher) over the division of India.
Independence Day horror of Amar (Eklayva Sood) pulled apart into two.
Bengal reminiscent of the demography change and the 1990 horrors of Kashmir.
The bodies of girls and women hanging from metal hooks alongside butchered carcasses of animals.
The alarm bells have rung. But whether then or now, Bharti Maa zinda hai.
Even as writer-director Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri pulls no punches in a clearly stark narrative that says, names change, the mission remains, he makes the 3 hr 20 min reality, watchable.
In one word: effective.
In many words: will be found offensive to some. Naming Husseini’s son Taimur should sum it up.
In many more words: propaganda if you look at it that way. But if Schindler’s List (1993) was a true account of the inhuman genocide of Jews, then Noakhali, Direct Action Day and Hindu genocide also happened in 1946.
The Bengal Files Watch Or Not?: It would depend on whether you view Hindu genocide as a truth that must be told or as propaganda. The choice is yours.
The Bengal Files Review Score Rating: 4 out of 5 (i.e. 4/5)
The Bengal Files Official Trailer:
Credits: Zee Studios
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