Vivek Agnihotri‘s upcoming film ‘The Tashkent Files’ is based on the mysterious death of India’s second Prime Minister, Lal Bahadur Shastri. The film is all set to hit the theatres on April 12.
The ace director took to his Twitter to share the release date of his upcoming film ‘The Tashkent Files’, and he wrote, “Friends, the film you’ve been waiting for:
The man you know… The mystery you don’t! #TheTashkentFiles
Releasing on 12th April 2019. #WhoKilledShastri #LalBahadurShastri”
Friends, the film you’ve been waiting for:
The man you know… The mystery you don’t! #TheTashkentFiles
Releasing on 12th April 2019. #WhoKilledShastri#MithunChakraborty #NaseeruddinShah @shweta_official @TripathiiPankaj @pathakvinay @mandybedi #PallaviJoshi #LalBahadurShastri pic.twitter.com/HL1SM741EM— Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) March 19, 2019
Earlier in an interview with PTI, Agnihotri said,”On January 10, 1966, Shastri had signed the Tashkent Agreement and hours later he died. A death mystery unsolved to date. Was it a heart attack or poison? The truth of the biggest coverup has been denied to his family and us. Immediately after his death, the family members of Shastri officially requested a post-mortem to the then acting Prime Minister Gulzarilal Nanda, but to no avail.”
Vivek further revealed some details on his film and he added, “The family also had requested former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi but was not heeded to once again. This issue has been raised in Parliament for the last 50 years and yet, we are trying to find out the truth. I picked up the gauntlet and tried finding the truth, and hence I filed RTIs, but I was shattered”.
The film also features actors like Mithun Chakraborty, Naseeruddin Shah, Shweta Basu, Pankaj Tripathi, Vinay Pathak, Mandira Bedi, Pallavi Joshi, Ankur Rathee and Prakash Belawadi in important roles.