Vivek Agnihotri’s ‘Files’ Trilogy: Will The Delhi Files Become The Bengal Files?
After the critical success of The Tashkent Files and the hit The Kashmir Files, director Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri is preparing to launch the final part of his Files trilogy. However, a recent major update may indicate that The Delhi Files will be more difficult to hang on to.
According to reports, the director is now considering a title more contextually relevant: The Bengal Files. What drove the change? Let’s decode this update from the source.
From Delhi to Bengal: What’s Behind the Title Change?
While The Delhi Files was long pitched as the final film in Agnihotri’s politically infused trilogy, the director recently revealed that the narrative of the film is much more relevant to Bengal’s history than to Delhi as a city.
During a recent Q&A, Agnihotri stated that while the working title continues to be The Delhi Files: The Bengal Chapter, he is considering rebranding the film as The Bengal Files to be more true to the story.
The teaser, which was released earlier in 2023, featured Mithun Chakraborty walking solemnly through a charred hallway, reciting the Preamble of the Constitution with a burnt tongue — a powerful and unsettling visual metaphor for silenced dissent and deteriorating identity.
The presenters think that there are symbolic references to the grim portions of Bengal’s post-Independence history, specifically political violence and ideological oppression.
The Trilogy: A Series of Provocation
Vivek Agnihotri’s Files trilogy has become a cinematic reinterpretation of India’s unstated or untold history:
- The Tashkent Files contemplated the unexplained death of Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri.
- The Kashmir Files was a huge box office success and started a national conversation on the diaspora of Kashmiri Pandits.
- Now, The Bengal Files (or The Delhi Files, when we get the answer) is trying to develop another sordid chapter of Indian history.
Sources suggest the film is slated for a release by the end of the year, with Pallavi Joshi, Anupam Kher, and Darshan Kumaar, along with Mithun in a significant role.
Forecasting: What To Consider
While the plot is supposed to be secretive, there is talk among producers and media that The Bengal Files will develop socio-political trauma, ideological disagreement, and the price of truth to power, and will follow Agnihotri’s tenor of storytelling.
The film is currently in post-production, and we expect final title confirmation in the next few weeks.
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Box Office Worldwide Verdict
Vivek Agnihotri’s potential renaming of The Delhi Files to The Bengal Files is a tactical manoeuvre that aligns narrative integrity and audience understanding.
With The Kashmir Files creating history at the box office and causing a cultural ripple effect, there is tremendous anticipation for this third and final chapter.
Whatever the title — The Delhi Files or The Bengal Files — one thing is certain:
Agnihotri is gearing up for another hard-hitting chapter that may divide opinion but unite cinephiles.
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