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1946 DIRECT ACTION DAY

By Vijay YALAKANTI

IMPPA-INDIAN MOTION PICTURE PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION - as SALES All rights, World / PROMO

Historical - Completed 2025

This is the harrowing journey of a family enduring unimaginable suffering, their survival standing as a testament to resilience and courage during one of the darkest chapters in Indian history. We observe the irreversible transformation of Hindu lives in Bengal from that fateful day onward, a haunting legacy of violence that casts its shadow across generations.

- Year of production
- 2025
- Genres
- Historical, Biography, Bollywood
- Countries
- INDIA
- Languages
- TAMIL, HINDI, BENGALI
- Budget
- 5 - 10 M$
- Duration
- 130 mn
- Director(s)
- Vijay YALAKANTI
- Writer(s)
- Vijay YALAKANTI
- Cast
- Raima SEN, Abhishek SINGH, Sandeep VED
- Producer(s)
- Tg Vishwa PRASAD (PEOPLE MEDIA FACTORY), Krithi PRASAD
- Synopsis
- 1946 Direct Action Day
  Director: Vijay Yelakanti
  Producer: TG Vishwa Prasad
  Production House: People Media Factory
  
  In 2019, India's ruling government announced the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), granting amnesty to non-Muslim illegal immigrants from neighboring countries. This sparked widespread political opposition across the nation. However, in the small town of Sindhanur in Karnataka, India, the announcement was met with enthusiastic celebration. Intrigued by this unexpected reaction, a young journalist sets out to uncover its origins, taking us back to the traumatic events of August 16, 1946. Before India gained independence, the Muslim League demanded their own nation, Pakistan, threatening to initiate Direct Action Day to showcase their power if their demands were not met. Under the leadership of Jinnah and the command of Bengal's Prime Minister Suhrawardy, Direct Action Day unleashed a wave of violence on the previously peaceful Hindu Bengalis in Calcutta.
  
  Through the perspective of a Hindu family—a father, a mother, and their two daughters—we witness the nightmare of massacres, relentless bloodshed, and horrific atrocities inflicted upon Hindus in the quest for Pakistan. Their once secure and familiar world becomes a scene of terror and despair, a vivid testament to human cruelty.
  
  This is the harrowing journey of a family enduring unimaginable suffering, their survival standing as a testament to resilience and courage during one of the darkest chapters in Indian history. We observe the irreversible transformation of Hindu lives in Bengal from that fateful day onward, a haunting legacy of violence that casts its shadow across generations.
  
  The narrative culminates in a poignant revelation: despite changes in leadership and the passage of time across the nation, the harsh reality for Bengali Hindus remain unchanged, an enduring scar on the fabric of their existence.