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Vivek Agnihotri announced the release date of The Delhi Files: The Bengal Chapter. The film is set to have a big Independence Day release next year.

New Delhi: Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri on Thursday, October 3, announced the release date of his anticipated film, The Delhi Files. The filmmaker announced that the film is set for Independence Day release in 2025. Speaking exclusively to News9, Vivek Agnihotri said that if Kashmir Files “disturbed” you then The Delhi Files will “destroy” you.

Vivek Agnihotri is known for directing Kashmir Files, Kashmir Filed Unreported and Vaccine War. In his post, he also announced that after years of exhaustive research, the story of The Delhi Files cannot be contained in one part and hence, he is bringing The Bengal Chapter, which is the first of two parts.

The Delhi Files: The Bengal Chapter

Sharing the announcement on X (formerly Twitter), Vivek Agnihotri said, “MARK YOUR CALENDAR: August 15, 2025. After years of exhaustive research, the story of The Delhi Files is too powerful to be contained in one part. We are excited to bring you The Bengal Chapter – the first of two parts, unveiling a significant chapter in our history. Please bless us and mark your calendars: August 15, 2025. #RightToLife.”

MARK YOUR CALENDAR: August 15, 2025.

After years of research, the story of #TheDelhiFiles is too powerful for one part. We’re excited to bring you The Bengal Chapter – the first of two parts, unveiling a significant chapter in our history.#RightToLife pic.twitter.com/JvrdiTx7xO

— Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) October 3, 2024

Vivek Agnihotri on The Delhi Files

Speaking exclusively with News9, Agnihotri said, “My film, The Delhi Files, is about citizens’ roles in our country and what the state owes to the citizens. It’s a hard-hitting, bold film. If Kashmir Files disturbed you, this is going to destroy you.”

He also talked about the Bengal genocide and told us, “Highly dominated by one single party even pre-independence time – Muslim League used to rule it. So what happened when India was not getting the partition, to put pressure? At time time, Congress was called the Hindu Congress and this was the Muslim League, so there was a clear-cut line that Congress represented the interests of Hindus and the Muslim League of Muslims which is not true because Mahatma Gandhi and others worked towards a more secular idea of India. Now to prove that Bengal belongs to Pakistan, they called for Direct Action Day, which meant going and killing all Hindus from there. This is a historical fact. Some 20,000 people were killed and the highest proportion was of Hindu people which also establishes that the Muslim League was ruling at that time. They could have defeated them and how did they achieve this? They achieved this by employing the mafia, and underworld. Calcutta had a big underworld back then and it was the only place that had cabaret, gambling and alcohol. So soldiers who came back after Second World War came to Calcutta and started selling arms and guns in exchange for alcohol, money or women.”

Talking about the research that he did for the film, he said, “I got so attached when I was interviewing these people. We interviewed so many people who are 100 plus because we wanted to interview the victims of Direct Action Day, the genocide that happened in 1946. I interviewed a lot of intellectuals, creative people, and so many political activists. Two common threats are – number one, everybody is leading Bengal, and nobody wants to live here and secondly, it has been 75 to 80 years almost after independence, and the violence has never stopped. We say the word silence but because I have researched so much, it’s not violence, it’s politically organised violence which eight out of ten times is communal violence but this is all funded, managed and organised by political parties.”

Vivek Agnihotri on women’s safety

Speaking about women’s safety in the Hindi film industry, he told News9, “Ladies’ toilet is basic. Now, look at the Hindi film industry, Since the 1990s, I haven’t seen a dramatic 360-degree turn into hygiene for women, isolated toilets or security outside and around women’s toilets. We do night shifts and somebody says go that side, you are walking so far for a toilet. If she is alone and 3-4 people come, then what will happen? Nobody thinks about these things. It is not part of the consciousness of the country.

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