The Bengal Files

The film sets its storyline primarily in Bengal’s Noakhali district. It then shifts the story to 2025, when an honest and passionate CBI officer, Shiva Pandit, is assigned the task of finding the facts in a missing backward-tribe girl’s case. Shiva is given the names of two suspects: a woman with dementia named Bharti Banerjee, who is said to have seen the girl last, and a politician, Sardar Husseini, who might be responsible for the missing case as the girl was set on exposing him. Husseini is a Muslim hardliner and has a loyal following. He has no qualms about resorting to violence. For Shiva, it’s an uphill and frustrating assignment in every way.