Tashkent Files  

Fearlessly, he told us about all his social media campaigns and his thinking behind it. His response to people who call him a troll, his response to media houses who call him a right-wing activist. He told us about his journey as a social activist since college days.

Prime Minister of the period when India signed a peace pact with Pakistan after the 1965 war, Shastri returned to India the next week dead. From the tell-tale signs on the body, it did not appear that the death was natural. Yet, the caretaker government of the time and the full-fledged government of the Congress that followed ordered neither an investigation nor even a post-mortem of the body.

I am not a film buff; I rarely go to cinemas. So don’t expect any critical review of the filmmaker’s craft. But I would urge you to go and experience it in a cinema hall surrounded by people immersed in its fast paced narrative.

The Tashkent Files revolves around the mysterious death of Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1966, soon after the signing of the Tashkent Agreement between India and Pakistan to end their 1965 war.

News TV anchor Rajdeep Sardesai recently said on his show that Vivek Agnihotri’s film on the mysterious death of Lal Bahadur Shastri, The Tashkent Files, was a propaganda film to be released just before the general election. Hurt, the filmmaker has sought a chance to explain what his creation is all about on the channel that has judged the film without seeing it.

If ‘The Accidental Prime Minister’ raised questions of impropriety against the Congress for having shabbily treated former PM Manmohan Singh, Vivek Agnihotri’s ‘The Tashkent Files’ will accuse the party of much more than that, the cover-up of the murder of another ex-PM, Lal Bahadur Shastri.

Director Vivek Agnihotri takes us back to 1960s when the then Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri passed away just hours after signing the Tashkent agreement. Read details

The film is about the mysterious circumstances under which the second Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri died in Russia. Titled "The Tashkent Files", the film is directed by Vivek Agnihotri.

Director Vivek Agnihotri of the ‘Buddha in a Traffic Jam’ fame will release his ‘The Tashkent Files’ delving into the mysterious death of India’s second Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri in Tashkent sometime just before the 2019 polls.