Based on true incidents, director Vivek Agnihotri's Tashkent Files, is a fictionalised film with cinematic liberties.
In form, it is a blend between a courtroom drama and an online game with different task levels. In purpose, while seeking answers to the mysterious death of India's second Prime Minister, Lal Bahadur Shastri, who died on January 11, 1966, in Tashkent, it implores you, as a citizen of the nation, to question for, "your right to truth".
The film has a kind of stark simplicity: Apart from a brief set-up and a briefer epilogue, a major portion of the film takes place within the four walls of an inquiry commission which is soaking to a jury room, as nine prominent and responsible citizens headed by politician Shyam Sundar Tripathi (Mithun Chakarobarty) debate on the "common conspiracy theory", that surrounds Shastri's demise.
It is an open fact, and no denying it, that there have...
In form, it is a blend between a courtroom drama and an online game with different task levels. In purpose, while seeking answers to the mysterious death of India's second Prime Minister, Lal Bahadur Shastri, who died on January 11, 1966, in Tashkent, it implores you, as a citizen of the nation, to question for, "your right to truth".
The film has a kind of stark simplicity: Apart from a brief set-up and a briefer epilogue, a major portion of the film takes place within the four walls of an inquiry commission which is soaking to a jury room, as nine prominent and responsible citizens headed by politician Shyam Sundar Tripathi (Mithun Chakarobarty) debate on the "common conspiracy theory", that surrounds Shastri's demise.
It is an open fact, and no denying it, that there have...
- 4/12/2019
- GlamSham
Before it's sidetracked by a bizarre amnesiac-meets-hooker subplot, Total Siyapaa (Total Chaos) is a staid Hindi variation on Meet the Parents.
A London-set remake of Spanish romantic comedy Only Human, the movie is at least distinguished by its choice of subjects: Weirdly timid guitarist Aman (Ali Zafar) tries to impress the family of his milquetoast fiancée, Asha (Yami Gautam).
But Asha is Indian, and Aman is Pakistani, and her family is intolerant in an ostensibly comical fashion. Asha's mom (Kiron Kher) hates Pakistanis, her granddad (Vishwa Badola) shot "Pakis" while in the Indian Army, and her brother, Manav (Anuj Pandit), can't stand their noisy Pakistani neighbors.
That race-baiting hook never develops as the movie ab...
A London-set remake of Spanish romantic comedy Only Human, the movie is at least distinguished by its choice of subjects: Weirdly timid guitarist Aman (Ali Zafar) tries to impress the family of his milquetoast fiancée, Asha (Yami Gautam).
But Asha is Indian, and Aman is Pakistani, and her family is intolerant in an ostensibly comical fashion. Asha's mom (Kiron Kher) hates Pakistanis, her granddad (Vishwa Badola) shot "Pakis" while in the Indian Army, and her brother, Manav (Anuj Pandit), can't stand their noisy Pakistani neighbors.
That race-baiting hook never develops as the movie ab...
- 3/12/2014
- Village Voice
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