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Drama, History, Thriller  •  2025  •  205 min

The Bengal Files (2025)

The Bengal Files poster

The Bengal Files (2025)

Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Traditional
Political: Strong Right
Diversity: Moderate
Hinduism: Positive
Viewer Rating
6.4

Overview

A criminal investigator uncovers a web of corruption during a missing person investigation, while a figure connected to the case reflects on the communal violence which broke out ahead of India's partition.

Starring Cast

Pallavi Joshi

Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Traditional

Primary

Political: Strong Right
Confidence: High

The film explicitly promotes a right-wing, Hindu nationalist ideology by framing historical communal violence as 'Hindu genocide' and linking it to modern concerns about 'demographic changes' and 'illegal migrants,' consistent with the director's previous works.

Diversity: Moderate
Confidence: Medium

The movie features visible diversity within its Indian context, including a Kashmiri Pandit protagonist and a mute eunuch ally. Its narrative explicitly centers on themes of Hindu persecution and historical trauma, advocating for the recognition of specific community suffering.

Secondary

Hinduism: Positive
Confidence: High

The film's narrative explicitly frames Hinduism and its adherents as victims of "genocide" and "barbaric persecution" during historical events, positioning the audience to sympathize with the faith and its followers.

LGBTQ: N/R

There is not enough publicly available information for AI to assess this category for this movie.

Trans: N/A
Confidence: High

Based on available information, The Bengal Files (2025) does not feature identifiable transsexual characters or themes of gender and sexual transformation. While a 'mute eunuch' character is mentioned, no details link this character to transsexual identity or related themes, with sources focusing exclusively on political and historical drama.

Female Combat: N/R

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High

According to available information, no characters in *The Bengal Files* (2025) are portrayed with an on-screen gender that differs from their established gender in source material or historical record.

Race Swap: No
Confidence: Medium

The character Shiva Pandit, a Kashmiri Pandit, is played by a Punjabi Hindu actor; both fall within the broader North Indian racial category, which is not considered a race swap. The character Bharati has no specified prior race. Other roles are unspecified, thus no race swap is identified.

Viewer Rating Breakdown

6.4

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
6.9
The Movie Database logo
5.9

Critic Ratings

Rotten Tomatoes logo
N/A
Metacritic logo
N/A

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