The Bengal Files box office collection Day 7: Vivek Agnihotri’s The Bengal Files was released in theatres a week ago, but hasn’t made a mark at the box office. The Bengal Files’ nett domestic box office collection currently stands at Rs 11.25 crore, as per industry tracker Sacnilk. On its seventh day of release, the film made Rs 1 crore, which is similar to what it has been making during the past week. The film opened with Rs 1.75 crore at the box office, and has roughly stayed in the same bracket since then.
On Thursday, The Bengal Files observed around 17 percent occupancy. In the Delhi-NCR region, the film had around 200 shows, and observed approximately 16.5 percent occupancy, and in the Mumbai region, the film had around 190 shows, and observed around 18.5 percent occupancy.
The Bengal Files has managed to overtake Agnihotri’s previous release, The Vaccine War, which made Rs 10.3 crore at the domestic box office. He said in recent interviews, defending the film’s poor performance, that it was always intended for streaming. However, The Bengal Files’ performance is nowhere close to his 2022 hit The Kashmir Files, which made around Rs 250 crore at the domestic box office. Vivek had been promoting his film quite aggressively via interviews for the last few weeks and claimed that he had invested his earnings from The Kashmir Files into this film. He told Galatta Plus that he made The Kashmir Files on a budget of Rs 15 crore, and made Rs 30 crore on it, and has since invested that money on The Bengal Files. “We made The Kashmir Files on a budget of Rs 15 crore. We earned Rs 30 crore from that film. We invested it in The Bengal Files. We also borrowed some money to make this film which is yet to be paid,” he said.
In the same chat, he also claimed that no one was backing his films financially. “My biggest challenge is money. Nobody backs our film until the last minute. Whatever money we earned in Kashmir Files, we have put in making The Bengal Files. I don’t know what will happen to me after this [financially]. The problem is that our ambition is to create something which is [worth] Rs 100 crore but we have very small money so we have to look after every penny and do things faster so that we finish shoot in lesser days,” he said.
With three of his last four films having made around Rs 10 crore to Rs 15 crore, it would appear that The Kashmir Files was an anomaly.
