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The Tashkent Files movie review: High on hysteria and hamming, Vivek Agnihotri's film comes off as a cheap trick
FirstpostA young “political” journalist desperate for a scoop to save her job attempts to probe the mysterious death of former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. Director Vivek Agnihotri’s purpose behind The Tashkent Files is as clear as day, but he spends 144 minutes trying to beat around the bush, appearing to examine varied points of view, lest someone calls this a partisan narrative. The committee includes an NGO-running social activist Indira Joseph Roy, a beedi-smoking historian Aiysha Ali Shah who loves punctuating her sentences with the term “fake news”, a former RAW chief Anantha Suresh, a retired judge and a scientist Gangaram Jha. Ragini manages to visit Tashkent, meet a former KGB/CIA secret agent Mukhtar, cry in front of Shastri’s statue and return armed with more secret documents that she openly carries on the streets of Delhi. In a meta stroke, if not a masterstroke, Ragini asks Shyam Sunder Tripathi in the end, “what did you get by probing Shastri’s death now, 53 years after it happened?” To which Mithun replies “mudda,” for the next election.
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