The Bengal Files, the concluding installment in Vivek Agnihotri’s Files trilogy, following The Tashkent Files and The Kashmir Files, hit theatres on September 5. The film delves into the communal unrest that gripped undivided Bengal in the 1940s, spotlighting key events such as Direct Action Day on August 16, 1946, and the Noakhali riots later that year.

Before The Bengal Files' streaming release on ZEE5 on November 21, Vivek Agnhotri shared some horrific details about Direct Action Day that he got to know during his research for the film. The filmmaker said, "We interviewed several survivors of Direct Action Day - many of them 100 to 102 years old today, one of them was a former Inspector General of Police in Bengal. He shared an incident that has stayed with me ever since. He said that

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