India, Sept. 5 -- Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri has said that the producers of his film, The Bengal Files, are planning to take legal action after claiming that the West Bengal government and police officials are threatening theatre owners not to screen his film in the state.

The film revisits the communal riots of August 1946 in Kolkata (then Calcutta) known as the Direct Action Day. The divisive film has already seen its share of controversies with its trailer launch in the state capital being disrupted, and at least two Bengali actors distancing themselves from the film.

The Bengal Files is releasing this Friday. Ahead of the release, the filmmaker told reporters in Mumbai, "Whatever the West Bengal government is doing is illegal and unc...