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Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero

Year:

2005

Duration:

208 min

Genres:

Biography | Drama | History | War

IMDB rate:

7.3

Director:

Shyam Benegal

Awards:

1 win

Details

Country: India

Release Date: 2005-05-13

Filming Locations: Berlin, Germany

Earnings

Opening Weekend: INR 2,253,000 (India) (20 May 2005)

Gross: INR 6,327,000 (India) (3 June 2005)

Cast

Actor

Character

Ila Arun

Ranu

Pankaj Berry

Aabid Khan

Nicolas Chagrin

General Auchinlek

Nalini Chatterjee

Meera

Vikrant Chaturvedi

Lt. Prem Kumar Sahgal

Pradeep Kumar Das

Servant

Kelly Dorji

Divya Dutta

Ila Bose

Chris England

CID Chief

Jayant Gadekar

Col Bhonsale

Sonamoni Jayant Gadekar

Capt Janaki

Arindham Ghosh

Subhas Chandra Bose's Cousin

Zakhir Hussein

Rajit Kapoor

Abid Hasan

Ahmed Khan

Mian Akbar

Shakeel Khan

Sarat Bose

Kulbhushan Kharbanda

Uttamchand Malhotra

Sachin Khedekar

Subhas Chandra Bose

Howard Lee

Bengal Governer

Kunal Mitra

Ashok Bose

Samiran Mukherjee

Subhas Chandra Bose's Cousin

Rohan Nichol

CID Officer

Lal Babu Pandit

Checkpost Policeman

Florian Panzner

Alexander Werth

Surendra Rajan

Mohandas Karamchand 'Mahatma' Gandhi

Rainer Reiners

Comedian

Charu Rohatgi

Bibavati

Alaknanda Roy

Prabhavati Bose

Ashiesh Roy

Spy Police 2 (as Aashish Roy)

Rajeshwari Sachdev

Capt. Lakshmi Sehgal

Udo Schenk

Adolf Hitler

Jishu Sengupta

Sisir Bose

Gen Seto

Ambassador Oshima

Satish Sharma

Yakub Guide

Rakesh Shrivastav

Spy Police 1

Arindam Sil

Jail Warden

Suneel Sinha

Sonu Sood

Sandeep Srivastava

Nambiar

Lalit Tiwari

Checkpost Policeman

Christian Willis

Jail Superintendent

Rajpal Yadav

Bhagat Ram Talwar

Arif Zakaria

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Trivia

Hours before the film's premier in Calcutta, five researchers submitted a petition was submitted to the Calcutta High Court seeking to remove any controversial issues seen in the film. These issues were the use of the word "forgotten" in the film's title and the scenes that showed Bose as married to an Austrian woman. In 2002, these same researchers had sent a notice to director Benegal requesting him not to show Bose's death in a 1945 plane crash. The same thing had been done in this case, but this time the researchers threatened to go to court if their requests were not granted. Benegal himself defended his film in court, and the petition was rejected.

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The film was originally going to premier on 5 May 2004, in a Calcutta Indian Army ground, in a bid to enter the Guinness Book of World Records. Unfortunately, the petition submitted by the researchers forced this premier to be canceled.

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The film was released all over India, except for Madhya Pradesh, as the cinema distributors in that region, facing losses from previous historical films, held the film as too controversial and risky to be shown in their halls. Ironically, Bose was re-elected Congress president in 1939 in Tripuri, in the eastern part of Madhya Pradesh.

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Quotes

Subhas Bose: Give me blood and I will give you freedom!

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