After making films on the life of many famous personalities, A biopic of India’s second Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri is going to be made. This movie is going to be special in many ways. Let’s know its 5 most important things:
# 1. India-Pakistan war was in 1965. After this war in January 1966 a agreement was reached between the two countries in Tashkent of Russia. Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri died on the night of the agreement. The reason for the death was described as heart attack. Director Vivek Agnihotri is making a story about his film around this event. Vivek has already given a lot of blockbuster Movies as ‘Chocolate’, ‘Hate Story’, ‘Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal’, ‘Zid’, ‘Juniyiyat’ and ‘Buddha in a Traffic Jam’ to the bollywood Industry before this.
#2. Vivek announced the decision to make a film on this topic only on Shastri’s death anniversary last year. They knew that there would be a lot of research to make this film. That’s why they gave the whole work for only one year. In his research, the public also helped him very much. Many theories of Lal Bahadur Shastri’s death revolve around the public domain. Vivek took advantage of this and got all the research done by the public. He told the public that whatever he knows about the death of Shastri, give information. After this, he received a lot of mail related to this issue.
# 3 Kuldeep Nayyar (The journalist who was on Tashkent tour with Shastri) had told in his two books Beyond The Lines and Scoop that there were so many rumors about Shastri’s death. After death, There was hundred kind of doubts about Shastri’s blue body, that maybe he was poisoned. His wife Lalita Shastri put a lot of emphasis on that. According to Kuldeep, balm was applied on his dead body so that it does not get damaged. For this reason the body was blue. Apart from this, the Chef was also suspected, who had cooked the food for Shastri that night. But this suspicion could not help as the same Chef used to cook on Shastri’s last Moscow tour.
# 4. Speaking to the media, Vivek said, “Shastriji’s death is a mysterious incident and public has many theories related to this issue. I believe that any controcracy has two sides. I want the public to deal with those two aspects. For this work, who could be better than Mithun Da and Naseer Saheb? I do not have any desire to commercially take big stars in my film. I do the casting merit. I wanted an actor in my film that could play those characters with full reliability. “However, the search for an actor for the lead role (Shastri’s roll) in the film is still in progress.
# 5. Vivek also said, ‘This is the best research on Shastri’s life. The most ‘apolitical’ film ever produced on a ‘Political Leader’ is’. The film will be called ‘The Tashkent files’. Its shooting will start from the third week of January. No date has been fixed for the release.
