Showing the Mirror

Actress Pallavi Joshi's latest film-The Bengal Files-explores the partition of Bengal, which she feels hasn't been represented enough in mainstream Hindi cinema

- Suhani Singh

Art needs to also disturb people," says National Award-winning actress Pallavi Joshi. "We somewhere felt that we can make that happen." She is talking about her collaborations with her husband, writer-director Vivek Agnihotri, whose works The Tashkent Files and The Kashmir Files have done just that ruffled feathers, created heated socio-political discourses and turned dramas into communal bigscreen experiences. The couple is hopeful that their September 5 release, The Bengal Files, part three of the Files trilogy, does the same. Says Pallavi, "I have looked at my profession as something more than being an entertainer. It is about giving back to society.