Review: The Tashkent files
On the night of 10th January, 1966, independent India’s 2nd prime minister shri lal bahadur shastri dies in Tashkent USSR. Not everyone was convinced that it was a natural death. Many theories surround his death and the one that floats up the most is the conspiracy that he had been poisoned that night, poison administered in his regular milk by cook ‘Jaan Mohommad’ who wouldn’t regularly serve him. Plot : Staring Naseerudin Shah (as PKR Natrajan) and Mithun Chakraborty (as Shyam Sundar Tripathi) in key roles as current day politicians. Shweta Prasad (Ragini Phule) is a young journalist who fakes news and is given the last opportunity to find a scoop for the media firm she works. Desperate to redeem herself, she gets into a game set by a caller who urges her to find out ‘Who Killed Shastri’ and sends her piles of research documentation on the mysterious death of Shastri. When her article hits the news-stands, she is approached by Shyam Sundar Tripathi who then talks to PKR Natra...