The Tashkent Files

The Tashkent Files
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Vivek Agnihotri
Written by	Vivek Agnihotri
Screenplay by	Vivek Agnihotri
Produced by	Haresh Patel Pranay Chokshi Anuya Chauhan Kudecha Vivek Agnihotri Ritesh Kudecha Sharad Patel
Starring	Mithun Chakraborty Naseeruddin Shah Shweta Basu Prasad Pankaj Tripathi Mandira Bedi Pallavi Joshi Rajesh Sharma
Cinematography	Udaysingh Mohite
Edited by	Sattyajit Gazmer
Music by	Songs: Rohit Sharma Score: Satya Manik Afsar
Production companies	SP CineCorp Vivek Agnihotri Creates
Distributed by	Zee Studios
Release date	12 April 2019 (2019-04-12)[1]
Running time	144 minutes[2]
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹7.5 crore[3]
Box office	est. ₹20.84 crore[4]

The Tashkent Files – Who Killed Shastri? is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language thriller film about the death of former Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri; written and directed by Vivek Agnihotri. The film stars Shweta Basu Prasad, Naseeruddin Shah, Mithun Chakraborty, Pankaj Tripathi, Pallavi Joshi, Prakash Belawadi and Mandira Bedi. It was released on 12 April 2019 to negative reviews but emerged as a box-office sleeper hit and received two National Film Awards.