, Sept. 11 -- The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Thursday criticized filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri after a Kolkata-based organisation announced the first screening of his controversial film The Bengal Files in the city on September 13.

The screening, organised by BJP-backed group Khola Hawa, will take place at Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Bhasha Bhavan in the National Library. The film, starring Mithun Chakraborty and Pallavi Joshi, is set against the backdrop of the 1946 Great Calcutta Killings and will be shown behind closed doors, with attendance by invitation only.

Speaking at a press conference, Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu said, "They have the right to screen the movie. But The Bengal Files has been rejected nationwide. Its box off...