Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, popularly called Netaji, is one of the foremost celebrated freedom fighters of India. He was born in Cuttack, Odisha to Prabhavati Dutt Bose, and Janakinath Bose. As we are celebrating Netaji’s 125th birth anniversary. On his birth anniversary, let’s have a look at how the film fraternity has paid its tribute to Netaji through movies.
This film narrates the story of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose from a toddler to a patriotic leader. it had been directed by Piyush Bose and made in Bengali. The movie featured actors like Amar Dutta, Samar Chatterjee, Ashish Ghosh among others. Ashish Ghose played the role of Netaji.
Shyam Benegal film, ‘Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero’, actors like Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Sachin Khedekar, Rajit Kapur, Arif Zakaria, and Divya Dutta played a key role. The film is about the last five years of Netaji’s life and thus the way he formed the Azad Hind Fauj. Sachin Khedekar played the role of Netaji.
Bangla movie ‘Ami Shubhash Bolchi’ starred Mithun Chakraborty, Laboni Sarkar, Karan Aanand, Saheb Bhattacharya, Barkha, and Anindya Banerjee. The film directed by Mahesh Manjrekar and therefore the story talks about a standard man, who is inspired by Netaji’s ideologies and becomes a hero among the masses.
This series, headlined by Rajkumar Rao, explored the journey of Subhas Chandra Bose from being an introvert to a brave nationalist. It also shows the plane crash during which Netaji was presumed dead.
Director Srijit Mukherji’s Bengali film ‘Gumnaami’ is based on a mysterious sadhu, Gumnaami Baba, from Faizabad who claimed to be Netaji. a locality of the people believed that Bose didn’t die during the plane crash in 1945 and resurfaced as Gumnani Baba in Faizabad afterward.
The latest of them all is that the web series on the lifetime of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose released on January 2020 on OTT. The Kabir Khan’s six-episode documentary shown the less-known facts and struggles of Bose’s Indian National Army soldiers.