Kharagpur (West Bengal) [India], September 6 (ANI): BJP leader Dilip Ghosh on Saturday asserted that the attempt to restrict the film in West Bengal will only increase people's curiosity, while reacting to the controversy surrounding Vivek Agnihotri's film 'The Bengal Files'.

Speaking to ANI on West Bengal Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya's statement, the BJP leader said, 'Right now, The Bengal Files is being watched across the country. People in Bengal will also watch it online. The more you try to stop people from watching, the more they'll want to see it. The truth can't be kept under wraps.'

The BJP leader emphasised that the ban could prevent viewers from accessing the film and that the truth shown in the movie would eventually reach the people.

A day earlier, West Bengal Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya dismissed the claims that distributors were pressured over Vivek Agnihotri's film 'The Bengal Files'.

'If the distributors were actually pressured, they would have spoken up about it... This is nothing but to malign the special state in various ways,' Bhattacharya told reporters.

The controversy began after the film was set to release in theatres on September 5, which explores the communal violence that took place in undivided Bengal during the 1940s, including the events of the Direct Action Day and the Noakhali riots of 1946.

On Thursday, as actor-producer Pallavi Joshi wrote a letter to President Droupadi Murmu seeking help for the peaceful release of the film in West Bengal, Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri emphasised the need to write the letter addressing the alleged 'unofficial ban' on the film's release in the state.

'The Bengal Files' is directed by Vivek Agnihotri, who came to fame with his directorial 'The Kashmir Files' in 2022.The upcoming film stars Mithun Chakraborty, Anupam Kher, Darshan Kumar and Pallavi Joshi in the lead roles. (ANI)