Congress is the only part that benefits from the film, I do not know why it's scary – Entertainment News, Firstpost

Director, producer and right-wing activist Vive Agnihotri is known for experimenting with different genres of filmmaking. He ventured into eroticism, thriller, sports, political dramas and directed movies like Chocolate, Dhan Dhan Dhan Goal, Hate Story . Buddha in a traffic jam, which no one made big case of an impact at the box office. It is perhaps his activist who pushed him to do The Tashkent Files to be published today (April 12). Based on the "mysterious" death of the second Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri in Tashkent (formerly part of the USSR, present-day Uzbekistan) in 1966, the film explores a possible conspiracy behind death and claims to discover the truth.

"A few years ago, Gandhi Jayanti read a newspaper A lot of articles and announcements about Mahatma Gandhi. As for my son, I asked him about Shastri ji and I had a blank reaction. "Who is Shastri?" Asked he. By frustration, I tweeted: "Do not forget, we are celebrating today the birthday of Shastri ji and hundreds of people have started asking me to make a film about him, "announced the director, who announced soon on social media that he would make a film about" the truth about the biggest hiding of free India ".

While official reports claim that the former prime minister died as a result of a heart attack, several conspiracy theories suggest that Shastri was poisoned. . Theories are reinforced by the fact that his personal physician, who stated that Shastri had never suffered from heart problems, was killed in a car accident shortly after his death. "I've covered every angle and every possible theory. The film is written in the manner of an audience drama where the audience is judged and presented with both sides of the argumentation, "explains the director.

" Once , I discovered that there was meat in history, as a corrupt Bollywood filmmaker, I decided to exploit it. After some research, I realized that there were so many loopholes and yet, for 53 years, no one thought about it. I wanted to do an authenticated search if I had to do the movie. So I became an alert launcher for a year and filed numerous requests for access to the Prime Minister's Office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of the Interior. The answers were similar: there is no document available on the death of Shastri ji ", he says.

As Agnihotri did not have many research papers, he published a video saying that he wanted to pile up. -source it. "And thousands of people have started sending me links, books and contacts." Nobody in the story from India or probably the world has done such research.This has given me hope that in the absence of material, you can always turn to the public because people have information, "he explains.

Although the director does not want to reveal what came out of the exercise from the crowd, he says that he is left shaken by thinking about the way the family of the former prime minister was denied the right to perform an autopsy. "I can not talk about our discoveries. For this you will have to watch the movie. But what scares me is that tomorrow, if a member of your family gets out of the country and dies suspiciously, and despite repeated requests, the right to do an autopsy is denied, he there will be nothing more tragic, "he says.

" I raise the question of the right to the truth, which is the first fundamental right of our democracy. I have traveled all over the world. When you mention the name of Shastri ji every Indian in the United States or the United Kingdom has only two things to say: 1. He gave us the slogan " Jai Jawan Jai Kisan ". 2. he was poisoned. "

By his own admission, Agnihotri's film is" the most apolitical film about a political figure. "However, one of Shastri's grandchildren has already sent him a legal notice requesting the suspension of his film, questioning the timing of its release, which is in contradiction with the first phase of the 2019 elections in Lok Sabha, which will begin on April 11. So, will it be fair to call the film a anti-Congress propaganda? "What does my film have to do with elections? My film will not benefit anyone. The only people who will benefit from the film is Congress because Shastri ji was a congressional leader, but the paradox is that it is the workers of Congress who threaten me, they make my life miserable, I would only say that only an idiot or a culprit would be afraid of it. because of their threats, "he said.

Agnihotri took about four years to complete the film starring Naseeruddin Shah, Pallavi Joshi, Shweta Basu Prasad, Pankaj Tripathi, Mithun Chakraborty and Vinay Pathak in key roles. While there were casting projects of Ratna Pathak Shah, Agnihotri convinced his wife, Pallavi Joshi, to play the role of an older woman, a historian of this fictional story based on facts: "I am very excited and have painted my hair in white for the movie. So the character's optics has finally fallen into place, but playing a nasty woman has been a difficult decision for me because I have the habit of smiling all the time. You wake me in the middle of the night and I will probably wake up with a smile. My character is very nawabi and privileged, "says Joshi. "It's the role of a historian. She is an author and has written books on Shastri ji . According to his theory, he died of a heart attack, "added the actress.

Shweta Basu Prasad, winner of a national award, is also a journalist and documentary filmmaker. "Mine is a strong character in this political drama. As a novice journalist, she writes scandalous and false stories and is in the headlines. She uses it as a stepping stone, but she discovers the Tashkent file and discovers what happened to Shastri ji . with unveiling the truth, "said Prasad. "I said" yes "to the movie because of its uniqueness. There is a shortage of political dramas in India. And because I have a journalistic bias, it helped me play the role. The reading of the scenario was a real revelation, "she added.

The Tashkent Files is Prasad's third film with Naseeruddin Shah after Iqbal, and the short film, . Night and it's his second with Mithun. Prasad worked with Mithun more than ten years ago in a Bengali film entitled Ek Nadir Galpo: The Narrative of a River . "Tashkent reminded me of films like Aandhi, Roja, Maachis and Nayak in which Anil Kapoor played the role of journalist and became following a politician, "says Prasad, whose next is Jamun with Raghubir Yadav. "It's a father-daughter story. My character is slightly handicapped and the film is a social commentary on how we perceive beauty. The cinema is changing and it's the best time to be an actor, "Prasad said.

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Publication Date: 12 Apr 2019 09:01
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