{"id":4499,"date":"2016-03-04T07:41:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T02:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=4499"},"modified":"2016-03-04T07:41:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T02:11:45","slug":"the-tashkent-files-review-vivek-agnihotri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=4499","title":{"rendered":"The Tashkent Files Review: A Life-Threatening Headache Presented by Alt-Historian Vivek Agnihotri"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">V<\/span>ivek Agnihotri\u2019s <\/p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tashkent Files<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a historical thriller that investigates the mysterious demise of former Prime Minister <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/lal-bahadur-shastri-jai-jawan-jai-kisan-soldier\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lal Bahadur Shastri<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, opens with an ironic disclaimer: The movie \u201ccan\u2019t claim historical accuracy\u201d. Considering that it is written and directed by the country\u2019s most dedicated alt-historian, a better title might have then been \u201cConspiracy Files\u201d.<\/span>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tashkent Files<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> opens with Ragini Phoole (a jarring Shweta Basu Prasad), a journalist whose editor threatens to shift her to the \u201cArts and Culture\u201d section if she fails to deliver a \u201cpolitical scoop\u201d in a week. Given Agnihotri\u2019s open animosity toward journalists, whom he has accused of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vivekagnihotri\/status\/1092638411175780352\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">writing soap operas<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vivekagnihotri\/status\/804541637892288512\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">having a low IQ<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynation.com\/india-news\/vivek-agnihotri-accuses-rajdeep-sardesai-of-propaganda-against-his-film-on-lal-bahadur-shastri-ppdebg\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">spreading propaganda<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the fact that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tashkent Files <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">paints them as imbeciles comes as no revelation. Naturally, Ragini\u2019s introduction includes us being told that she is an irresponsible millennial journalist who only dabbles in fake news: Her editor reprimands her for filing a political story based on imaginary sources and made-up quotes; Ragini defends her actions by bragging about the number of retweets that particular story fetched.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the real world, Ragini would have been fired. But in a Vivek Agnihotri film, Ragini sets off a massive re-investigation into Shastri\u2019s death, more than 50 years after the tragedy. According to her story, Shastri \u2013 who was in Tashkent (then in the USSR, now in Uzbekistan) to sign the Tashkent Declaration \u2013 didn\u2019t die of a cardiac arrest, but was poisoned. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">True to the stereotype of a lazy <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/international-youth-day-millennial-generation-gen-x-social-media\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">millennial<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> employee, Ragini doesn\u2019t spend sleepless nights tirelessly working to earn the facts and figures that prove her version. Instead, all she does is walk to the office washroom and answer a prank call. A stranger on the other side of the line asks her the dullest patriotic pop quiz ever, whose questions include \u201cWhat happened on August 15?\u201d \u201cWhat happened on October 2?\u201d. In exchange for her answers, Ragini finds a file on the inconsistencies in Shastri\u2019s death and just like that, without any further investigation, her story is printed the next day. Evidently, Agnihotri spends more thought in crafting a tweet than writing the script of a feature film.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A front-page byline and one week later, Ragini is now Delhi\u2019s star <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/journalist-suman-chattopadhyay-arrest-bengal-media\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">journalist<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: She is invited on a primetime news show and her story prompts a fact-finding committee \u2013 headed by politician Shyam Sunder Tripathi (Mithun Chakraborty) \u2013 to look into the allegations. Besides Ragini, the main players in this committee are Indira Joshi Roy (Mandira Bedi), a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/urban-naxal-uapa-arrests-bhima-koregaon\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">social activist<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> whose only contribution is consistent screeching; Aiysha Ali Shah (Agnihotri\u2019s wife Pallavi Joshi), a wheelchair-bound historian who pretends like she knows exactly how to stop the apocalypse and goes, \u201cMain historian hoon, mujhe sab pata hai,\u201d every five minutes; and Vivendra Pratap Singh Rana (Prashant Gupta), an ill-tempered young politician who keeps banging the table and yelling at everyone as if he&#8217;s on Republic TV<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">After a point, the film becomes an endless cycle of whataboutery that is designed solely as a war cry against logic \u2013 just like Agnihotri\u2019s Twitter timeline.<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It doesn\u2019t help that an inordinately large part of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tashkent Files<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is spent inside a dilapidated room where this very committee convenes daily to debate whether Shastri died a natural death or whether it was a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/earth\/murder-price-hill-station-holiday\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">murder<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that was promptly covered up. For most of the film\u2019s unending 144 minutes, the committee members argue with each other about the same things \u2013 like Shastri\u2019s age when he died and whether there was oxygen in his room cor randomly scream \u201cfake news!\u201d as a comeback. After a point, the film becomes an endless cycle of whataboutery that is designed solely as a war cry against logic. Basically, Vivek Agnihotri\u2019s Twitter timeline coming to life. <\/span>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/who-is-an-urban-naxal-vivek-agnihotri-presents-an-exhaustive-guide\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Agnihotri<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a proponent of needless theatrics, goes out of his way to guarantee that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tashkent Files<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> says nothing about the potential cause of the former PM\u2019s death. Instead of living up to the promise of answering who killed Shastri, Agnihotri\u2019s unhinged script somehow makes Ragini travel to Tashkent just to ask Shastri\u2019s statue for help before turning to another totally credible source: an Indian spy with an anger management problem. At some point, an editor-turned-monk briefly turns up looking like a discarded clone of the Dalai Lama\u00a0 \u2013 in case you&#8217;re wondering, he is another totally credible whistleblower.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If that\u2019s not enough, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tashkent Files<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0keeps quoting from random books and uses videos of Shastri\u2019s family talking about his death as shocking evidence. Yet none of the \u201cinformation\u201d that the film posits \u2013 like the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/meena-t-pillai-resignation-academics-indian-government\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian government<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> not ordering a post-mortem after Shastri\u2019s death \u2013 are facts that are top secret; they\u2019re freely available online. It\u2019s hard then, to not see the movie as an attack on the right to Google search.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But because this is a smug Vivek Agnihotri film, its climax hinges on a whole sequence where Tripathi gives every member of the committee a terrorism designation: One is called an \u201cintellectual terrorist\u201d, another is a \u201cTRP terrorist\u201d, while yet another a \u201cjudicial terrorist\u201d. Completing the ritual is a scene where Ragini has ink thrown on her face and is christened with Agnihotri\u2019s favourite nickname: \u201cpresstitute\u201d. You\u2019ll be pleased to know that her past achievements include being called \u201canti-national\u201d. Thankfully, no one gets called an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/who-is-an-urban-naxal-vivek-agnihotri-presents-an-exhaustive-guide\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Urban Naxal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Throughout, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tashkent Files<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> keeps raising questions and then presenting multiple <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/cash-crunch-three-conspiracy-theories\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">conspiracy theories<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> like an ill-conceived Quora thread that is asking to be deleted. For instance, Agnihotri dedicates a large chunk of the film to highlight the involvement of KGB in Shastri&#8217;s death, so much so that even the end credits have pages from the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Mitrokhin Archive<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 detailing these allegations \u2013 plastered on screen. As usual, there&#8217;s a catch. They\u2019re accompanied by another significant disclaimer: \u201cThe authenticity of the claims made in the report are not proven.\u201d <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By the end of the movie then, we\u2019re back where we started \u2013 no one is certain how Shastri died or why Agnihotri continues making films. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tashkent Files<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> may not answer \u201cWho Killed Shastri?\u201d but it sure as hell, leaves no doubt in telling us who killed common sense.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vivek Agnihotri&#8217;s The Tashkent Files keeps raising questions and presents multiple conspiracy theories on Lal Bahadur Shastri&#8217;s death like an insufferable Quora thread. 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