Box Office Update: Baaghi 4, The Bengal Files, and The Conjuring: Last Rites fail to impress

Tiger Shroff’s Baaghi 4, Vivek Agnihotri’s The Bengal Files, and Michael Chaves’s The Conjuring: Last Rites, all released on September 5, have so far struggled to make an impact at the box office.

On the fifth day of release, The Conjuring: Last Rites earned Rs 5.50 crore, bringing its total collection to Rs 61 crore. Baaghi 4 collected Rs 4 crore on the same day, taking its overall total to Rs 39.75 crore. Meanwhile, The Bengal Files has managed Rs 9.19 crore in five days.

About The Bengal Files and Baaghi 4

The Bengal Files is the third film in Vivek Agnihotri’s Files trilogy, following the National Award-winning The Tashkent Files (2019) and The Kashmir Files (2022). The film features Mithun Chakraborty, Saswata Chatterjee, Anupam Kher, Priyanshu Chatterjee, and Darshan Kumar. NDTV’s review noted, “This lesser-known bloodied chapter about Indian history needed a much more nuanced filmmaking. The imagery is in-your-face, and the performances are screechy and over the top.”

The Baaghi franchise, which established Tiger Shroff as a leading action hero, could not recreate the magic with its fourth instalment. NDTV critic Saibal Chatterjee wrote, “Shroff has the skills to dive into high-octane action sequences with his hero poise intact. But when the script is only superficially visceral, even a capable actor cannot inject credibility into 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 Conjuring: Last Rites is the ninth instalment in The Conjuring Universe. The film, based on the true-life Smurl haunting, stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga reprising their roles as paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, alongside Mia Tomlinson and Ben Hardy.