The Bengal Files box office collection day 6: Vivek Agnihotri’s new film earns Rs 10 cr, only a fraction of The Kashmir Files | Bollywood News
The final chapter in director Vivek Agnihotri’s spiritually connected trilogy, The Bengal Files, has managed to surpass the first part, The Tashkent Files (2019) a wide margin at the box office, but is not even a patch on the domestic box office collection of the second part, The Kashmir Files (2022). Within its first six days of release since September 5, the political drama has earned Rs 10.25 crore.
On Wednesday, The Bengal Files managed to earn only Rs 1 crore, its lowest single-day collection yet. It was a minor drop from its Tuesday earnings of Rs 1.35 crore, which was a slight improvement on its Monday collection of Rs 1.15 crore. That was a significant fall from its Sunday earnings of Rs 2.75 crore, a marginal increase from its Saturday collection of Rs 2.25 crore, a further spike from its opening day earnings of Rs 1.75 crore, as per industry tracker Sacnilk.
In comparison, within the same period of its first six days, The Kashmir Files earned over Rs 79 crore. However, The Bengal Files has now earned around the same as what The Tashkent Files collected within its first three weeks. It’s also almost surpassed the lifetime earnings of Agnihotri’s last film, The Vaccine War (2023), which collected Rs 10.33 crore at the domestic box office.
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Meanwhile, the Calcutta High Court on Monday dismissed a petition filed the grandson of Gopal Chandra Mukherjee, seeking a stay on the release of The Bengal Files, alleging that the protagon was depicted in a poor light in the movie. In his plea, Santanu Mukherjee claimed that his grandfather, a freedom fighter who ran a goat meat shop in Bowbazar in the 1940s, was wrongly depicted in the film.
Producing a photograph, he alleged that the film insultingly refers to Gopal Chandra Mukherjee as “Patha” (a Bengali word for goat). He further argued that the movie falsely portrays his grandfather as being involved in the events of August 16, 1946, known as the ‘Great Calcutta Killings’. The film features Mithun Chakraborty, Anupam Kher, Pallavi Joshi, Saswata Chatterjee, Darshan Kumarr and Sourav Das in leading roles.
The petitioner’s lawyer submitted before the court that Santanu had filed an RTI application to the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), questioning its role in assessing how his grandfather was portrayed in the film. He contended that despite the expiry of the mandated period, the requested information was not furnished.
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The CBFC’s counsel said no appeal against the film’s release had been filed the petitioner within the stipulated time after receiving no RTI response. They added that since the film was already being screened across the country, the petition had become infructuous. Hearing all sides, the HC observed that the petitioner ought to avail the remedy prescribed under the RTI Act and declined to entertain the writ petition.
The Bengal Files was released alongside Baaghi 4, which has made around Rs 40 crore at the box office so far, and The Conjuring: Last Rites, which has made nearly Rs 60 crore so far. On its seventh day of release, The Bengal Files will overtake Agnihotri’s The Vaccine War.
