Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero | |
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Directed by | Shyam Benegal |
Produced by | Raj Pius Barbara von Wrangell |
Written by | Atul Tiwari Shama Zaidi |
Starring |
Sachin Khedekar Kulbhushan Kharbanda Rajit Kapur Divya Dutta Arif Zakaria |
Music by | A. R. Rahman |
Cinematography | Rajan Kothari |
Edited by | A. Sreekar Prasad |
Distributed by | Sahara India Media Communication Ltd. |
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222 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Budget | ₹300 million |
Box office | ₹2.4 billion |
Bose: The Forgotten Hero: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
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Soundtrack album by A. R. Rahman | ||||
Released | 2004 | |||
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Panchathan Record Inn A.M. Studios |
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Genre | Soundtrack | |||
Length | 1:03:23 | |||
Label | Times Music | |||
Producer | A. R. Rahman | |||
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Planet Bollywood | link |
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero is a 2004 Indian biographical war film, written and directed by Shyam Benegal. The film starred an ensemble cast of Sachin Khedekar, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Rajit Kapur, Arif Zakaria, and Divya Dutta, among others. The film depicts the life of the Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose in Nazi Germany: 1941–1943, and In Japanese-occupied Asia 1943–1945, and the events leading to the formation of Azad Hind Fauj.
The production design was helmed by Samir Chanda, with soundtrack, and background score by A. R. Rahman, Upon release, the film received wide critical acclaim at the BFI London Film Festival, and has garnered the National Film Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration, and the National Film Award for Best Production Design for that year. The film was screened retrospective on August 14th 2016 at the Independence Day Film Festival jointly presented by the Indian Directorate of Film Festivals and Ministry of Defense, commemorating 70th Indian Independence Day.