India, Aug. 24 -- The trailer launch of Vivek Agnihotri's upcoming political thriller, The Bengal Files, was an eventful affair. First, the filmmaker said the trailer launch had to be postponed after a cinema chain in Kolkata withdrew permissions. Then, when it was held the following day at a hotel in the city, protesters disrupted it. Pallavi Joshi, Vivek's wife and the film's co-producer, talks about the sentiment against the film and calls it politically motivated.

In a chat with Hindustan Times, Pallavi expresses surprise at the opposition they met in Kolkata. "We don't live in a fool's paradise. So we knew that resistance hoga," she says, adding, "But honestly, I hadn't thought the police would be sent. Like Vivek also said, 'hum ch...