Lal Bahadur Shastri's grandson sends a legal notification to Vivek Agnihotri

Director Vivek Agnihotri said Wednesday that a grandson of Lal Bahadur Shastri, the second Indian prime minister, had sent him a legal note requesting a suspension of his film. The archives of Tashkent. The April 12 issue alleges a plot behind Shastri's death in January 1966 and claims to reveal the truth.

"Last night, a senior congressman and former congressional secretary asked the law to prevent the film's release. It is the grandson of Lal Bahadur Shastri, close collaborator of the big family. ", Said Agnihotri in a statement on Wednesday," This is despite the fact that they saw the film, appreciated it and expressed their gratitude in person on April 7 in Delhi to PVR. "

Agnihotri said at Republic that the notice had been sent by Vibhakar Shastri., Congressman.

Agnihotri baderted that the senior management of Congress and the Gandhi family were behind the move. "I learned from the horse's mouth that they had been forced to do so by the highest family," said the filmmaker. "The grandsons of Shastri were used as scapegoats because the orders come from the highest family I can not understand why the top congressional leaders would do this, why would Congress want to stop the film, shut me up, why are they afraid of a movie that raises questions about a citizen's #RightToTruth ? "

Agnihotri told IANS that he had not yet responded to the notice. The news agency said that Agnihotri had shared with them a copy of the legal notice, claiming that the film was trying to "create an unjustified and unnecessary controversy" and "hurt feelings and emotions". A large part of society ".

Shastri, who succeeded Jawaharlal Nehru as Prime Minister in 1964, died in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on 11 January, 1966. A heart attack is the official cause of death. The day before, he had signed the Tashkent Declaration, a peace treaty between India and Pakistan after the 1965 war.

The film examines the various conspiracy theories about his death. The trailer evokes the possibilities of involvement of a rival and indicates that Shastri had learned that the head of the Indian National Army, Subhas Chandra Bose, had survived the crash of the plane in 1945 and was actually in Tashkent when the Prime Minister went on the spot. The film claims to reveal the truth about Shastri's death through the efforts of a journalist.

The cast includes Naseeruddin Shah, Pallavi Joshi, Shweta Basu, Pankaj Tripathi, Mithun Chakraborty and Vinay Pathak.

Some members of Shastri's family also challenged the official version of the events and asked for the de-clbadification of documents related to his death.