Ace filmmaker
Vivek Agnihotri's upcoming project 'The Tashkent Files' which is based on the mysterious death of India's second Prime Minister,
Lal Bahadur Shastri
is all set to release on 12th April 2019.
The director took to Twitter to make the announcement today and 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"
In an interview earlier with PTI, Agnihotri had 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 had further 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 features
Mithun Chakraborty,
Naseeruddin Shah, Shweta Basu,
Pankaj Tripathi, Vinay Pathak, Mandira Bedi, Pallavi Joshi, Ankur Rathee and Prakash Belawadi in pivotal roles.
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