The Tashkent Files

The Tashkent Files (2019)

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The Tashkent Files is a thriller that revolves around the mysterious death of India's 2nd Prime Minister Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri and attempts to uncover if he had actually died a natural death, or, as alleged, was assassinated.

Date of release
2019-04-12
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (60)
Runtime
2h 24m
Genres
Drama, Mystery, Thriller, History
Director
Vivek Agnihotri
Collection
Untold Stories of Independent India Collection

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Interesting facts

The Tashkent Files is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language conspiracy politicial thriller propaganda film written and directed by Vivek Agnihotri. It focuses on the mysterious death of former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. It is the first installment in Agnihotri's The Files Trilogy, followed by The Kashmir Files (2022) and The Bengal Files (2025). The film received overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics.

Production

The film was announced in January 2018 as India's first "crowd-sourced" thriller, with director Vivek Agnihotri inviting the public to share material related to Shastri’s death. Books referenced include Political Mysteries by K. R. Malkani, Conversations with the Crow by Gregory Douglas, and the Mitrokhin Archive by Vasili Mitrokhin.

The first poster was released on 19 March 2019, announcing a 12 April 2019 theatrical release. The film was also made available on ZEE5.

Agnihotri described it as the first installment of his trilogy of "untold stories of independent India," followed by The Kashmir Files (2022) and The Bengal Files (2025).

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