Mithun Chakraborty claims The Bengal Files isn’t a propaganda film, wants to play Che Guevara and Osho Rajneesh on screen

Mithun plays a partially mute old man in present-day Kolkata, who’s a victim of the 1946 Great Calcutta Killings. A couple of adjectives often follow all of Agnihotri’s films — “hard-hitting” and “propaganda”. Mithun agrees with the former — “Yes, it’s a hard-hitting film. The film which tells the truth has to be hard-hitting” — while vehemently dismissing the latter.

A member of the Bhartiya Janata Party, Mithun slams Mamata Banerjee-led All India Trinamool Congress-led state government of West Bengal for obstructing the trailer launch of The Bengal Files, scheduled to take place at a luxury hotel in the city last month. “It was a planned conspiracy. If you haven’t even watched the trailer, how can you stop the trailer launch event,” Mithun asks.

Anupam Kher, another Vivek Agnihotri regular, will be seen essaying Mahatma Gandhi’s role in The Bengal Files. That wasn’t a historic personality on Mithun’s wish list, but he discloses he’s entered into discussions with a director to play Rajneesh Osho, the late godman, on screen. “Personally, I also want to play the revolutionary leader, Che Guevara,” he reveals.

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Mithun will be seen in yet another film with political undertones, playing a maulvi in Rajkumar Santoshi’s period drama Lahore 1947, also starring Sunny Deol, Preity Zinta, Shabana Azmi, and Ali Fazal, and produced by Aamir Khan. He’ll also appear in Hanu Raghavpudi’s Telugu movie Fauji, co-starring Prabhas. “Fauji is a patriotic film too, but very different culturally. Then I’m also doing Jailer 2 with Rajinikanth. I’m also doing Projapoti 2 (sequel to his 2022 Bengali family drama). I do all kinds of films. Just that I do only the films in which my character excites me, otherwise I don’t do it,” says Mithun.