The Taj Story movie review: Headlined by Paresh Rawal, The Taj Story is yet another film that seeks to reinterpret Indian history as well as rewrite textbooks. Rawal plays Vishnu Das, an Agra-based tourist guide who files a petition questioning the historical proof that Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal. He demands to know on what basis the monument’s story found its way into school textbooks and calls for an excavation to uncover what lies beneath the marble structure.

Though conceived as an intense courtroom drama, writer-director Tushar Amrish Goel’s film turns into a collage of conspiracy theories that have circulated for years about the Taj’s origins. The script repeatedly mentions the 22 sealed rooms under the monument, fanning old suspicions. Rawal’s Das swiftly transforms from a disg

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