Controversial filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri, in association with Zee Studios, has unveiled the second poster of his upcoming film The Tashkent Files. The poster features Mithun Chakraborthy. Vivek revealed that Mithun plays the leader of the opposition party in the film.
Donning white long hair, Mithun Chakraborty plays the character of Shyam Sundar Tripathi. The original leader of the opposition party during Lal Bahadur Shastri's rule was Mohammad Ayub Khan. He was a Pakistani military dictator too who had forcibly taken over presidency from the first President Iskander Mirza through coup in 1958.
Also revealing that the trailer would be out on 25th March, Vivek Agnihotri tweeted, "Presenting #ShyamSundarTripathi, a political guru whose only mantra is to win. Trailer out on 25.03.19 #TheTashkentFiles #WhoKilledShastri #MithunChakraborty #NaseeruddinShah @shweta_official #PallaviJoshi @TripathiiPankaj @pathakvinay @mandybedi @ratheeofficial @ZeeStudios_"
The Tashkent Files raises questions about former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri's mysterious death. Shastri died right after India defeated Pakistan in the Indo-Pak war of 1965. The military conflict took place between April 1965 and September 1965. The conflict began post Pakistan's Operation Gibraltar whose aim was to cause insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir.
Written and directed by Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri, produced by Pranay Chokshi, Haresh Patel, Pallavi Joshi and Vivek, the movie is slated to release on 12th April. Co-incidentally, PM Narendra Modi, the biopic on India's current Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was slated to release on 12th April but has been postponed to 5th April release.
