When filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri—often referred to as the ‘poster-boy’ of the newly-emerged genre of ‘Hindutva propaganda films’—announced in April 2022 that his next venture would be a film named The Delhi Files, speculation was rife that it would be about the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi. Agnihotri never confirmed the plot, until recently. It turns out that the film is about the Partition, set in West Bengal, and focussing on the role that ‘Delhi’ played in the bifurcation of Bengal in 1947.