A day earlier than the scheduled launch of The Bengal Recordsdata on September 5, producer-actor Pallavi Joshi issued an open letter to President Droupadi Murmu, alleging that multiplex homeowners in West Bengal have declined to exhibit the movie and urging intervention to safeguard constitutional rights.
Pallavi Joshi appeals to President Murmu as The Bengal Recordsdata faces ‘unofficial ban’ in West Bengal: “I plead on your intervention to uphold my constitutional rights”
Sharing the letter on Instagram, Pallavi captioned it as, “URGENT APPEAL Your Excellency, @presidentofindia, As Producer of #TheBengalFiles, I’m pained that multiplex chains in Bengal have refused the movie’s launch underneath political strain and threats by the ruling social gathering. I plead on your intervention to uphold my constitutional rights and guarantee its launch in Bengal.”
Sharing the letter on Instagram, Joshi wrote, “Revered Madam President, With a heavy coronary heart, I attain out to you, not for favours, however for cover. The Bengal Recordsdata, the ultimate a part of the Recordsdata Trilogy, releases on fifth September. It tells the long-suppressed fact of the Hindu genocide of Direct Motion Day, the horrors of Noakhali, and the trauma of Partition. However in West Bengal, fact is underneath siege. Years earlier than completion, the Chief Minister mocked the movie. Since then, baseless FIRs have been filed, our trailer was blocked by police, and even newspapers keep away from carrying advertisements. My household is threatened every single day by political social gathering staff. Now theatre homeowners have informed us they’re being intimidated, threatened, and are refusing to display screen it, fearing violence by ruling social gathering staff. There isn’t any official ban, but an unofficial ban silences the movie earlier than folks can see it.”
She continued, “Legendary actor, Padma Bhushan Victor Banerjee, together with many Bengali organisations in India and overseas, have already petitioned you. Their help proves that fact nonetheless has allies. The Bengal Recordsdata is the cry of Maa Bharati, scarred but unbroken, a narrative of survival and hope. As a lady who rose from the margins to the very best constitutional workplace, solely you may actually perceive what it means to endure such ache and switch it into goal. That is cinema of fact. However fact additionally wants safety. Madam President, I search not a favour for a movie however house for artwork, for fact, for Maa Bharati’s soul to talk with out worry. You’re my ultimate hope. Please shield our constitutional proper and let The Bengal Recordsdata be proven in West Bengal peacefully.”
The solid of The Bengal Recordsdata consists of Mithun Chakraborty, Anupam Kher, Darshan Kumar, Simrat Kaur, Saswata Chatterjee, Namashi Chakraborty, Rajesh Khera, Puneet Issar, Priyanshu Chatterjee, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Sourav Das, and Mohan Kapur.
Lately, a trailer launch occasion for the movie befell in Kolkata however was unexpectedly interrupted when the Kolkata Police stopped the screening halfway, including to the rising controversy surrounding its launch within the state.
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Extra Pages: The Bengal Recordsdata Field Workplace Assortment
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