The Bengal Files Release: There was talk that Vivek Agnihotri’s The Bengal Files would come out in West Bengal on Friday, May 8. But Agnihotri later used his Instagram Stories to say that was not true. He said the film will now hit screens next Friday, May 15. Reports today also say he has made it clear that the West Bengal release is on May 15, not May 8.
Why the film was missing from Bengal before?
The film had already released across India on September 5, 2025, but West Bengal was left out at that time. After that, the film became a talking point in the state, and Agnihotri said theatre owners were not agreeing to screen it. NDTV had checked with cinema owners in Kolkata before the earlier release, and they gave different reasons for not showing it.
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Navin Choukhani, Director of Navina Cinema, said, “It’s a single screen. We had a prior commitment with Tiger Shroff’s Baaghi 4. The Bengali film Dhumketu is already doing well for us. So, we are not running The Bengal Files.”
Arijit Dutta, the owner of Priya Cinema, said, “In a single screen, we can’t run several films. We will run Baaghi 4 along with two Bengali films. You can ask the multiplex owners why they are not running The Bengal Files.” NDTV also reported that the theatre owners had not given any official statement saying clearly why the film was not being screened in Bengal.
Agnihotri says the film was Blocked
After the BJP’s win in West Bengal, Agnihotri shared a post online and said the film had been banned in the state. In that post, he wrote, “Our trailer launch was blocked. We were attacked and assaulted. Dozens of FIRs were filed against me. I was cancelled in Bengal. I couldn’t even go to receive my award from the governor. But we never gave up. During these elections, we ensured the film was somehow shown to as many people as possible across Bengal. I am glad we didn’t give up and fought in our own little way,”.
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The latest reports say the film will now finally arrive in West Bengal on May 15. That has brought the whole issue back into focus, especially because the movie was already out in the rest of India but not in the state where much of its political noise was happening.
