Kolkata, March 22 -- Korpur (camphor), a film released on Friday starring two prominent Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidates-minister Bratya Basu and the party's state general secretary Kunal Ghosh-has become a talking point in poll-bound West Bengal as it focuses on alleged corruption in the higher education system during the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] regime.

Korpur, based on Dipanwita Roy's novel Antardhaner Nepothye, focuses on the unsolved police investigation into the 1997 disappearance of Manisha Mukhopadhyay, then the assistant controller of examinations at Calcutta University. She was reportedly last seen riding in a taxi in south Kolkata.

Mamata Banerjee, who was in the Congress during the incident, formed the ...