Sanjyot Wankhede

The Tashkent Files These days Bollywood isnt about senseless movies where people just go to watch a high rated actor. The trend is more about patriotism, historic ,non fiction, worthwhile movies. After amazing movies like Padmavat, Uri, kesari comes the latest less promoted but a must watch movie - The Tashkent Files. Mouth publicity favors a movie like this. Its about the murder mystery of 2nd former Prime Minister of India known only by the name Lal bahadur shashtri. As other things remain unknown about him like his murder. That was the era where social media didnt exist to talk about the truth, did that made it so easy to kill a Prime minister and portray it as a natural death? Who killed him?is the question raised. Since then he was erased from the history and no student read about him. 'We call india a nation of Nehru and Gandhi,why not of shastri' was a point made in the movie. No one knows how different our country,our constitution,our politics would have looked like if his ideas were followed. The movie does a good job of talking about delicate topics like secularism and socialism. The thriller nature of the movie runs throughout making the viewers curious of the next big finding of the murder mystery case. Also Kudos to shweta basu prasad, mithun chakraborthy and naseeruddin shah for their performance. Spoilers- (You can either read the disclosure or watch the movie before) The climax of the movie will shake you up as for the findings. Gifts of millions were sent by KGB in India to her inorder to suppress the murder and his idealogy, to keep the nation blissfully ignorant. By (her) meaning Indira Gandhi. Facts are written in the book called - The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB in the World. 'India was almost up for sale' was the words in this book hand written by the famous spy and historian.

It is a great watch. Girls being girls ,crazy humor, emmotional, standing up for each other. Everything was so good except personally i didnt like how it ended. I mean there is nothing a couple therapy couldnt fix if you really want to be with each other. Also choosing job over love or love over job is a tough call and a personal choice. The movie did a good job in being realistic. I just wish for a different ending.