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Bose: Dead/Alive (2017)

Subhash Chandra Bose, the man who led the fight for Indian Independence from Japan had a revolutionary life; but his death is what has left the entire country in confusion. Did he really die in the plane crash or was it conspired fake death? Why has no one talked about it?
This series, starring one of the famed actors of Bollywood, Rajkummar Rao is filled with mystery, drama and action. One of the best series to be made on a historical anecdote.
Lovers of history, this one is for you! Even if you don't, watch it as you'll love it too.

Bose: Dead/Alive is an Indian historical drama web television miniseries starring Rajkummar Rao in the character of Bose. On 18 August 1945 after his overloaded Japanese plane crashed in Japanese-occupied Formosa (now Taiwan), Subhas Chandra Bose is supposed dead. However, his house in Kolkata receives a telegram from Mahatma Gandhi to not conduct his last rites. It then begins with consideration about his death and other characters who infer how he has disappeared in the past as well, with all of them hinting his possible arrival. The entire series is cast as a cat-and-mouse game between the representatives of the British Raj and Bose, Rajkummar Rao taking us through the various stages of development in the mysterious leader's life with a sure-handed cockiness that never suggests a fragment of smugness.

If anyone intrigues me more than any other person, it's got to be Subhash Chandra Bose. The man who was really the Boss. This show is an arrow on the heart of the issue : where did Bose escape after the airplane crash in Japan. You might think its all concocted and candy coated. But let's not forget that this is what drama stands for.
Rao, being the excellent actor that he is, has left no stone unturned to prove his metal. We see in him the passion of the real Bose.
Patralekha, is very convincing as the elite, Brit polished girl of open mentality.
There are certain scenes that make you question your judgement about Bose till this day. Well, this is what seem series actually are for. Watch every episode with a quest to uncover the mystery around Bose's death.