Daijiworld Media Network- New Delhi
New Delhi, Sep 10: Tiger Shroff’s Baaghi 4, Vivek Agnihotri’s The Bengal Files, and Michael Chaves’s The Conjuring: Last Rites, which hit theatres on September 5, are struggling to make an impact at the box office even on Day 5.
Box office performance:
• The Conjuring: Last Rites collected Rs 5.50 crore on Day 5, taking its total to Rs 61 crore.
• Baaghi 4 added Rs 4 crore on the fifth day, standing at a total of Rs 39.75 crore.
• The Bengal Files managed a total of Rs 9.19 crore in five days.
About The Bengal Files and Baaghi 4:
The Bengal Files, the third installment in Vivek Agnihotri’s Files trilogy following The Tashkent Files (2019) and The Kashmir Files (2022), features Mithun Chakraborty, Saswata Chatterjee, Anupam Kher, Priyanshu Chatterjee, and Darshan Kumar. NDTV described it as a “lesser-known bloodied chapter of Indian history that needed more nuanced filmmaking,” noting that performances were “screechy and over the top.”
The Baaghi franchise, which made Tiger Shroff a popular action hero, has failed to replicate its earlier success. Critic Saibal Chatterjee observed, “Shroff has the chops for intense action sequences, but the script lacks the punch to lend credibility to the protagonist’s exploits.”
About The Conjuring: Last Rites:
Directed by Michael Chaves and written by Ian Goldberg, Richard Naing, and David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, the ninth instalment in The Conjuring Universe explores the Smurl haunting. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga reprise their roles as Ed and Lorraine Warren, alongside Mia Tomlinson and Ben Hardy.
With the weekend box office underwhelming, all three films face an uphill task in attracting audiences in the coming days.