Director Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri has announced the third part of his trilogy of true untold stories of independent India. After ‘The Tashkent Files‘ and ‘The Kashmir Files’, the third installment will be called the ‘The Delhi Files‘. While the first movie that came out in 2019 dealt with the probe into the mysterious death of India’s second prime minister, Lal Bahadur Shastri, the second movie deals with the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits in the early 1990s and is expected to release soon. Written and directed by Agnihotri, ‘The Delhi Files’ will be a bilingual film, simultaneously shot in Hindi and Punjabi.
Director Agnihotri took to social media earlier today to announce the new movie with a teaser of sorts and the caption, “Hiding truth, denying justice and no value of human life are blots on our democracy.
#TheDelhiFiles is my boldest and exposes a gut-wrenching tale of our times”. While the earlier two movies dealt with the first two smears, ‘The Delhi Files’ deals with the right to life. The teaser doesn’t reveal much, with the exception of the cry of a small Sikh child in the end. Does it deal with Operation Blue Star or the unfortunate Sikh massacre post the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984 that followed the same? For the unversed, Operation Blue Star was the code name of an Indian military action to neutralize militant Sikh preacher Jarnail Singh Bhindrawale and his armed supporters from the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
Incidentally, both earlier films in the trilogy star veteran actor Mithun Chakraborty. While ‘The Tashkent Files’ also starred Shweta Basu Prasad, Naseeruddin Shah, Mandira Bedi and Pankaj Tripathi in the lead, ‘The Kashmir Files’ also features Anupam Kher and Puneet Issar in important roles. If director Agnihotri considers Mithun da as his lucky charm, we may see him lead the cast un this film too! Produced by Abhishek Agarwal, Archana Agarwal, director Vivek Agnihotri and wife Pallavi Joshi, ‘The Delhi Files’ is expected to be the boldest film of the trilogy and will soon go on floors.