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Is The Bengal Files OK for kids?
Age guidance
18 and up
CBFC A · BBFC 15 · our read 18+ · read from 11 reviews and the board’s record
18+
Parents should know
Strong violence: a body is torn apart by motorcycles and mutilated women hang on hooks. A partition-era drama mixing 1940s Bengal riots with a present-day investigation. Also strong scary or upsetting scenes and strong sexual content.
Parents should know
18 and up
- Strong violence
- Strong sex & nudity
- Strong intense scenes
From 11 reviews Filmi read; the age is the CBFC A certificate’s.
1 · CertificateCBFC A · 18+
2 · Filmi’s read4 of 7 categories documentedNot documented does not mean absent
LanguageNot documented
Drinking, smoking, drugsNot documented
Role modelsNot documented
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Summary
A criminal investigator uncovers a web of corruption during a missing person investigation, while a figure connected to the case reflects on the communal violence which broke out ahead of India's partition.
Filmi puts it at 18+, and the CBFC certified it A.
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Certificates
CBFC · IndiaA
BBFC · UK15
Minimum age
Source: CBFC
Certificate · BBFC
15minimum age 15
source link pending
Certificate · CBFC
Aminimum age 18
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The record, item by item
Every piece of evidence behind the flags, quoted, with its source.
Violence · Strong · Reviewer on record
“In the second half a couple of horrifying scenes — humanity ended right there.” view the record →
Violence · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“The Direct Action Day incident shown will jam your system from inside.” view the record →
Violence · Strong · Reviewer on record
“Literally hands, legs, neck — all shown torn apart.” view the record →
Intense scenes · Strong · Reviewer on record
“A handful of scenes that shouldn't have been allowed to be shown in theatres.” view the record →
Violence · Strong · Reviewer on record
“This film's brutality will make your heart tremble, it's shown so horrifically” view the record →
Intense scenes · Strong · Reviewer on record
“The movie is very mature and brutal, so keep it away from children” view the record →
Violence · Strong · Reviewer on record
“The Hindi movie is disturbingly graphic, gory and gruesome.” view the record →
Sex & nudity · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“people are being massacred and raped left, right, and centre” view the record →
Violence · Strong · Reviewer on record
“The film will make your stomach turn because of the way the random killing of Hindus has been shown.” view the record →
Violence · Strong · Reviewer on record
“The violence on display is sickening, with mutilated women being hung up on hooks in slaughter-houses.” view the record →
Violence · Strong · Reviewer on record
“The Bengal Files shows communal violence in all its mindless brutality, mostly Muslim perpetrators and Hindu victims.” view the record →
Violence · Strong · Reviewer on record
“These scenes are extremely difficult to watch because they're graphic in nature.” view the record →
Violence · Strong · Reviewer on record
“splitting a character's body into two by pulling him in two directions with motorcycles” view the record →
Violence · Strong · Reviewer on record
“the movie leaves no stone unturned in showcasing the violence with every gory detail possible” view the record →
Intense scenes · Strong · Reviewer on record
“The horrors are absolutely tough to sit through. A film not meant for the faint-hearted at all.” view the record →
Violence · Strong · Reviewer on record
“the camera pans through vultures feeding on the corpses” view the record →
Violence · Strong · Reviewer on record
“kids surely don't need such a bloodied watch!” view the record →
Violence · Strong · Reviewer on record
“disturbingly graphic, gory and gruesome” view the record →
Violence · Strong · Reviewer on record
“brutality and gore are too graphic” view the record →
Violence · Strong · Reviewer on record
“communal violence in all its mindless brutality” view the record →
Violence · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“lots of gore and political drama on offer” view the record →
Sex & nudity · Strong · Reviewer on record
“he molests, rapes and then kills Hindu women from any age group” view the record →
Intense scenes · Strong · Reviewer on record
“massacred and raped left, right, and centre” view the record →
Intense scenes · Strong · Reviewer on record
“इंडियन सिनेमा के इतिहास का सबसे डिस्टर्बिंग सिनेमा” view the record →
Intense scenes · Strong · Reviewer on record
“बच्चों से दूर ही रखें” view the record →
Intense scenes · Strong · Reviewer on record
“kids surely don't need such a bloodied watch” view the record →
Positive messages · Some · Reviewer on record
“rescued by a valiant Sikh, Amar Singh Rathod” view the record →
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Summary
A criminal investigator uncovers a web of corruption during a missing person investigation, while a figure connected to the case reflects on the communal violence which broke out ahead of India's partition.
Parents ask
Answered from the record below — the certificate, the board’s cut list, and what reviewers documented.
Is The Bengal Files OK for kids?
Filmi puts The Bengal Files at 18+ — suitable for 18 and over. The CBFC certified it A. That comes from the certificate and from what reviewers documented, not from anyone at Filmi watching the film — every claim on this page is quoted with its source.
What age is The Bengal Files suitable for?
18+, based on the CBFC rating of A. 3 of the five content-warning categories are documented for this film.
What content should parents know about in The Bengal Files?
What the record shows: violence — strong; language — not on record; sex or nudity — strong; drink or drugs — not on record; frightening scenes — strong. A category left blank means nobody documented it, not that the film is clean — the full record, quoted with sources, is on this page.
Did the censor board cut anything from The Bengal Files?
The CBFC certified it A with no published cut list. That is not the same as the film being uncut — only that no modification was published.