Updated On: 09 September, 2025 09:47 PM IST | Mumbai | IANS
Veteran actor Anupam Kher recently watched Vivek Agnihotri’s The Bengal Files in theatres and shared the audience’s emotional response. He described the film as shocking, saddening, disturbing, and powerful, with many viewers moved to tears recalling the Partition-era riots

Anupam Kher
Veteran actor Anupam Kher, who essays the role of Mahatma Gandhi in Vivek Agnihotri’s The Bengal Files watched the controversial drama in a theatre recently. Sharing the audience reaction to the flick, Kher revealed that people were going through a sea of emotions while witnessing "The Bengal Files", even crying for the people who lost everything in those riots before partition.
Dropping a selfie with Vivek, Pallavi Joshi, and the rest of the team, Kher penned, "Watched vivekagnihotri’s TheBengalFiles in a 80% theatre full of people of all ages! The film is Shocking, Saddening, emotionally Disturbing and at places numbing too. Audiences were going through a sea of emotions. At places crying for the people who lost everything in those riots before partition." Lauding the technical crew of the drama, the veteran actor added, "All departments in the film are A-Grade! Acting, sets, cinematography, background music, costumes. But as they say the CAPTAIN of the ship undoubtedly is #VivekAgnihotri. BRILLIANT! Go watch it. This kind of Cinema is equally important! Talking about past can heal the present and teach us few lessons for future!", with a folded hands emoji.