New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- Actor Eklavya Sood, part of the ensemble cast of filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri's The Bengal Files, has voiced concern over the film's absence from theatres in West Bengal. In an interview with LiveMint, Sood said, "Freedom of an artist should not be curbed," reacting to the blockade of the film in West Bengal. In The Bengal Files, Eklavya Sood plays a fictional character, Amarjeet Arora.

"The character was really intense. I read the script 40-50 times and started visualising the character. Only mine and Simratt's (Kaur)character, Bharti, was fictional. So, I had the freedom to create a backstory for my character: what a Sardar is doing in Calcutta. I had to pick up the accent. I called my aunt and told her to teach me ...