After a lifetime spent reciting the eternal love story of the Taj Mahal, veteran tour guide Vishu Das says his faith is shattered.

“The story we have been telling all these years – what if it turns out to be a lie?” he asks, distraught as he looks at the monument from a nearby rooftop. His desperation leads to a radical suggestion: “Could we not just run a DNA test on the Taj Mahal?”

The moment ends with a bleak conclusion: “We are spreading a lie.”

This is a scene from Indian director Tushar Goel’s controversial film “The Taj Story,” released in October, which challenges the official history of one of the world’s most famous monuments to love.

In the scene, Das is advancing a theory widely debunked by historians: that the 17th-century Taj Mahal is not a Muslim mausoleum, but a Hindu p

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