Bose: Dead/Alive
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In a no-holds-barred interview last year, Anita Bose Pfaff, daughter of Netaji Subash Chandra Bose, had lamented how conspiracy theories have reduced her father to "the chap whose death is a controversy," negating his struggle for India's freedom from the country's political narrative. One wonders what her reaction will be to Ekta Kapoor's web series, Bose: Dead/Alive that presents the theory that would be discussed in hushed whispers in the late '40s and has gained credence over the decades with historians — that Bose staged his plane crash. Based on India's Biggest Cover-up by Anuj Dhar, the series also borrows its incandescent tone from the book. Written by Reshu Nath, the screenplay oscillates between the highlights of Bose's life and events that followed his death.

Rajkummar Rao in Bose: Dead/Alive