Stars:

Rajkummar Rao, Naveen Kasturia, Edward Sonnenblick

There are perhaps more myths to Subhash Chandra Bose than there are accurate histories. From ageless rumours in Kolkata about Bose pulling off histrionics akin to those of superheroes to his eventual destination after a plane crash in 1945, there are countless theories. The intrigue surrounding Netaji’s death (or was it) has in recent years also become a way to garner political mileage, with the BJP often cornering Nehru and the Congress for its treatment of Bose’s family after he allegedly went missing

The narratives woven around Bose’s charisma and bravura means that a lot of people see him as an icon. Evidence of this would be the several threads littered across community platforms like Quora. Add to that the recently declassified Bose documents. Put together, all of this has been building to a fever, and no format is better for channelling such feverish intrigue than that of the visual. ALT Balaji’s Bose: Dead/Alive with the near-impossible-to-pin-down Rajkumar Rao as Bose is all set to paint the mystery red.