Overview
- ZEE5 will begin streaming The Bengal Files on November 21, as confirmed by the platform and the filmmakers.
- The film has been officially selected for the Indian Panorama section at the International Film Festival of India.
- The Bengal Files released in theatres on September 5 and, after an initial state ban, eventually opened in West Bengal.
- Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri’s drama revisits Direct Action Day and related 1940s violence in Bengal, presenting those events as a genocide.
- Reviews were mixed and reported worldwide collections stayed under ₹25 crore, with the film positioned as the third entry in Agnihotri’s Files Trilogy.