Bose: Dead/Alive Review

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.