Film on Shastri titled 'The Tashkent Files'

Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri announced his new film, which will be based on the life of former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. The investigative thriller film is titled "The Tashkent Files". It was announced on Shastri's 52nd death anniversary on Thursday.

The director has roped in actors Naseeruddin Shah and Mithun Chakaraborty for the movie on Shastri’s controversial death. Agnihotri will cast a prominent actor for the role of Shastri.

The film goes on floors next week. Shastri died in Tashkent, then in the Soviet Union, soon after signing a peace pact with Pakistani rulers to end the 1965 India-Pakistan war.