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'Metro In Dino' actor Saswata Chatterjee on acting in Vivek Agnihotri's 'The Bengal Files' amid the controversy: 'The name of the film earlier was The Delhi Files and...'
Filmmaker Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri on Monday said he would go the legal route if the release of his film 'The Bengal Files' is stalled in West Bengal.
The trailer launch of the film in Kolkata was disrupted on Saturday. Agnihotri claimed the event was first cancelled by a multiplex and then moved to a hotel where power supply was disrupted and police turned up asking if permission had been taken.
'We will go by the Constitution. We will go legally. If they stop us, we will take the legal course. What can we do? We are common citizens like you… We will pray that sanity prevails and the state government does not do it (stop the release),' the filmmaker said at a press conference here while hitting out at the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC government in West Bengal.
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Saswata Chatterjee on the controversy
'I am just an actor. I liked a character and I played it. I am not a historian to think about what history says and this is distorting history. It's not my job. If those whose job it is feel that Bengal is being belittled, then they can go to court with the information. There is no point is just making noise,' said Saswata Chatterjee in an interview with The Wall.
'I don't know. Let me tell you this. Nowadays, it's a trend, the whole story won't be told to anyone. You only get to know your track, your character. And when I was told about the role [in 'The Bengal Files'], I found the character to be amazing. It's a villain's character and very few people get such characters to play,' he added.
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