The Tashkent Files

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• The film was inspired by questions raised about the death of India's second Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri by Shastri's family and by activists. Shastri died in mysterious circumstances in Tashkent in the erstwhile Soviet Union in 1966, a day after signing a peace agreement to end the India-Pakistan war of 1965. The film's release was marred by controversy. Some accused the film of being based on conspiracy theories. While Shastri's son Sunil and grandson Sanjay Nath Singh endorsed the film, his grandsons Vibhakar and Diwakar sent director Vivek Agnihotri a legal notice seeking a stay on its release. Agnihotri alleged that they had been pressured by the Congress party to send him the notice.[1][2][3]
• Vivek Agnihotri compiled the research for the film in a non-fiction book titled "Who Killed Shatri?" published in August 2020.[4]
• Actress Pallavi Joshi turned producer with this film. She also acted in it. The film was written, directed, and co-produced by her husband Vivek Agnihotri.

1. ^ The man who accompanied Shastri to Tashkent debunks 'The Tashkent Files'
2. ^ Lal Bahadur Shastri's grandsons seek stay on The Tashkent Files release, Vivek Agnihotri cries foul
3. ^ 'The Tashkent Files' lands in legal trouble
4. ^ After film, Vivek Agnihotri launches book 'Who Killed Shastri?: The Tashkent Files'