At a press conference in Delhi on 18 August, director Vivek Agnihotri defended his film ‘The Bengal Files’ against criticism. Asked if the film has distorted history to create a political story, the filmmaker said he had spent two years in researching the subject and was described as a untold story of the history of Bengal. He referred to the Great Calcutta killings and Nokhali riot of direct action day – 1946 as an example of a Hindu massacre.

,Kya Massacre Nahhi Hua tha direct action day equal? Was Nokhali riots massacre (Was there not a massacre on direct action day? Was Nokhali riots not a massacre?), “He said.

Direct action day

While India was under British rule in 1906, the All-India Muslim League (AIML) was established to protect Muslim interests in DACCA (current Dhaka). By 1946, as the British prepared to leave, the party called for a “direct action” to demand a separate Muslim homeland. How did they try to get it? With broad communal riots, strikes and shutdowns.

On August 16, 1946, violence took place in Calcutta (now Kolkata), resulting in large -scale clashes between Hindus and Muslims. The riots spreading in other parts of India are remembered as a significant turn in the history of the country and contributed to Hindu-Bahul West Bengal and Muslim-Bahul East Bengal (now Bangladesh) in the partition of Bengal.

Talking to the media, Agnihotri argued that Bengal would not have been divided If there were no riots. He also questioned the alleged inaction of the government at that time.

“My film shows the Direct Action Day – The Black Day, Nokhali riots, due to which a part of Bengal was a part of Bangal, which was taken away from us to make Bangladesh. If this had not happened, Bangaldhesh would have been part of India, and lacquer would not kill,” he said.

Nokhali riots

Two months after the direct action day, violence erupted in a district Nokhali in Bangladesh – the same series of incidents that Agnihotri has referred to as a Hindu massacre. Hindu families were attacked, women were attacked, houses were looted, and people were abducted by mob. The first incidents were reported during Lakshmi Puja on October 10, 1946, and the violence continued for days, with a little immediate administrative response.

Mahatma Gandhi, then led to India’s freedom movement, spent four months in Nokhali, tried to restore peace and communal harmony in an attempt to restore the entire region, as the Indian National Congress gradually accepted the idea of being a divided Bengal.

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There are many historical interpretations of triggering riots in Nokhali. ‘Bengal Files’ are engaged with some of these narratives – both widely accepted accounts and more election -contes theory.

“The film is part of the history of our partition, which should be told to the world,” Agnihotri said, urged the Mamata Banerjee -led West Bengal government to host a special screening instead of opposing it.

The history of Kolkata has not been told in a big way in Hindi cinema. As the ‘Bengal files’ releases, it is released Debate has sparked How the history of partition is represented in popular culture, and cinema is understood today how these memories are understood.

It hits the screen on 5 September.