India, Aug. 16 -- The trailer launch of The Bengal Files was disrupted while it was being screened in a five-star hotel in Kolkata with the film's director Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri alleging that it was "dictatorship and fascism".

"All the (media) cameras have captured how a Central Board of Film Certification-approved film's trailer was stopped. We have got all the permissions. It was being screened in a private place (hotel banquet). This is anarchy, this is dictatorship, this is fascism," Agnihotri told the media.

The trailer was scheduled to be launched in a leading multiplex in Kolkata. On Friday Agnihotri alleged that the event was cancelled. The film's team then decided to launch it in a hotel on Saturday.

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