Amit Bhatia of ABP News gave the film 3 stars out of 5, remarking that while it didn't quite do justice to the gravity of its subject, Raaz’s performance and the weight of the real-life tragedy made it worth a watch.Read at source
Udaipur Files 2025 
Synopsis
Udaipur Files
Udaipur Files: Kanhaiya Lal Tailor Murder is a 2025 Indian Hindi-language crime thriller film co-directed by Bharat S. Shrinate and Jayant Sinha, co-written by Amit Jani, Bharat Singh, and Jayant Sinha, and distributed by Reliance Entertainment. The film stars Vijay Raaz, Rajneesh Duggal and Preeti Jhangiani and is inspired by the events surrounding the murder of Kanhaiya Lal on 28 June 2022.
- Director
- Bharat Shrinat
- Release
- 8 Aug 2025
- Studio
- Jani Firefox Films
- Run time
- 125 min
- Language
- Hindi
Reviews
3 Indian-media reviews, grouped by reception.
Critics' consensus
Unfavorable
Critics' aggregate for Udaipur Files is 33/100 from Amit Bhatia (ABP News) and Rishabh Suri (Hindustan Times) and Subhash K Jha (News 24).
Synthesized by AI (gpt-5-codex-omdb-enricher) from 3 source-backed reviews — verify against the linked sources.Watch points
- writing
Positive 1
Critical 2
Rishabh Suri of Hindustan Times gave the film 1.5 stars out of 5, finding it unfocused, dabbling in religion, politics, and romance, repeatedly starting subplots only to abandon them, and the production values visibly low.Read at source
Subhash K Jha of News 24 gave the film 0.5 stars out of 5, labelling it as a one-sided, inflammatory, and highly provocative story, and feeling that the tone and pitch of the storytelling suggested that the entire community was responsible for the crime.Read at source
Media & trailers
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Details
Technical specs
- Release date
- 8 Aug 2025
- Run time
- 125 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- IN
- Director
- Bharat Shrinat
- Studio
- Jani Firefox Films
- Distributor
- Reliance Entertainment
Trivia
- The film was initially titled Gyanvapi Files: A Tailor's Murder Story before its final release.
- Vijay Raaz portrays the victim Kanhaiya Lal Sahu, while Rajneesh Duggal plays the Intelligence Bureau officer Ishwar Singh.
- The Central Board of Film Certification removed 55 objectionable portions from the film prior to its certification.
- The film was released on 8 August 2025, opening on 4,500 screens across India.
- The movie earned only ₹0.63 crore as of 16 August, resulting in a box-office failure.
- Meerut Police arrested four people, including an AIMIM corporator, on charges of burning the film's posters.
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