''Netaji '' () is a

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on the life of

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Subhas Chandra Bose (23 January 1897 – 18 August 1945) was an Indian nationalist whose defiance of British authority in India made him a hero among many Indians, but his wartime alliances with Nazi Germany and Fascist Japan left a le ...

that premiered on 14 January 2019 and aired on Bengali GEC

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. Based majorly on ''Udyata Kharga Subhash'' by Achintya Kumar Sengupta and produced by

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, the series stars

Abhishek Bose Abhishek Bose is an Indian Bengali television actor and dancer who works in Bengali television serials and films. He is known for his role in ''Netaji, Seemarekha ''Seemarekha'' is a Bengali television family drama. It premiered on 23 Octob ...

in the eponymous role, with Basabdatta Chatterjee, marking her comeback on television, Dhruvajyoti Sarkar, Kaushik Chakraborty, Sriparna Roy, Debopriyo Sarkar, Sohan Bandopadhyay, Fahim Mirza appearing in other recurring roles. Due to the

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, the shooting of the series was stalled. It was rumoured that along with ''

Karunamoyee Rani Rashmoni ''Karunamoyee Rani Rashmoni'' was an Indian Bengali historical drama television series which aired on Bengali Entertainment Channel Zee Bangla and is also available on the digital platform ZEE5. It was premiered on 24 July 2017. The serial was ...

'', this series will be axed the channel. Putting rest to such rumours, the shooting started from June 11 and new episodes started to air from June 15, 2020. The show went off air on 1st August 2020.

Plot

This show is a

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, depicting the life of

. The show begins by presenting the youth of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, and presenting the many brave decisions Bose took as a young boy with his friends in

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. From episode 231, the series transitions to his later life, and his attendance at the Presidency College in

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. In episode 390, there is another jump to 1933. The show also presents other groups of independence involved at Bose's time, including the likes of

Bagha Jatin Bagha Jatin (; ) or Baghajatin, born Jatindranath Mukherjee (); 7 December 1879 – 10 September 1915) was an Indian independence activist. He was one of the principal leaders of the Jugantar party that was the central association of revolu ...

Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian Modern yoga gurus, yogi, maharishi, and Indian nationalist. He also edited the newspaper Bande Mataram (publication), ''Bande Mataram''. Aurobindo st ...

Khudiram Bose Khudiram Bose (also spelled ''Khudiram Basu'') (3 December 1889 – 11 August 1908) was an Indian nationalist from Bengal Presidency who opposed British rule of India. For his role in the Muzaffarpur Conspiracy Case, along with Prafull ...

and many others associated with the

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. Often regarded as the greatest leader of the Indian Freedom Struggle, he fearlessly led his

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to war against the

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, inspiring mass revolts and mutinies throughout the country, ultimately resulting in

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Cast

Main

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Subhas Chandra Bose (23 January 1897 – 18 August 1945) was an Indian nationalist whose defiance of British authority in India made him a hero among many Indians, but his wartime alliances with Nazi Germany and Fascist Japan left a l ...

: Janakinath & Pravabati's son ** Ankit Mazumder as young Subhas Chandra Bose aka Subi: Janakinath & Pravabati's son<

Recurring

* Dhrubajyoti Sarkar as

Sarat Chandra Bose Sarat Chandra Bose (6 September 1889 – 20 February 1950) was an Indian barrister and independence activist. Early life He was born to Janakinath Bose (father) and Prabhabati Devi in Cuttack, Odisha on 6 September 1889. The family origina ...

: Subhash's brother; Janakinath & Prabhabati's son * Sriparna Roy as Bibhavati Bose (née Dey Biswas) aka Bibha: Sarat's wife; Akshay and Subala's daughter *

Kaushik Chakraborty Kaushik Raj Chakraborty (born 24 October 1980) is an Indian Bengali actor, who mainly works in Bengali television serials and films. He is best known for his role as ACP Bir Singha in the detective television series '' C.I.D. Kolkata Bureau''. ...

as Janakinath Bose: Subhash's father * Basabdatta Chatterjee as Prabhabati Bose (née Dutt) aka Probha * Saugata Bandyopadhyay as Ashoke Nath Bose * Diya Mukherjee as Sarbani Roy Choudhury (Bani) * Gautam Mukherjee as Shankar Lal Roy Chowdhury * Ritwick Purkait as

Kazi Nazrul Islam Kazi Nazrul Islam (24 May 1899 – 29 August 1976) was a Bengalis, Bengali poet, short story writer, journalist, lyricist and musician. He is the national poet of Bangladesh. Nazrul produced a List of works by Kazi Nazrul Islam, large body of ...

* Rob Dey as

Sisir Kumar Bose Sisir Kumar Bose (2 February 1920 – 30 September 2000) was an Indian freedom fighter, pediatrician and legislator. He was the son of Indian nationalist leader Sarat Chandra Bose, nephew of Indian freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose and husba ...

* Ashmee Ghosh as Ila Bose * Debopriyo Mukherjee as

Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2October 186930January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalism, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethics, political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful Indian ...

* Unknown as Jawaharlal Nehru * Debdut Ghosh as

Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Thakur (; anglicised as Rabindranath Tagore ; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengalis, Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renai ...

* Sohan Bandopadhyay as

Charles Tegart Sir Charles Augustus Tegart (5 October 1881 – 6 April 1946) was an Anglo-Irish police officer who served extensively in British Raj, British India and Palestine. Early life Born in Derry on 5 October 1881, Tegart was the son of a Church ...

* Sudip Sengupta as Bipin Behari Ganguly * Nilanjan Datta as Inspector Shiben Chowdhury * Shyamashis Pahari as Inspector Suresh Sarkhel * Neil Chatterjee as Pratap Babu * Lopamurdra Sinha as Pratap's mother * Moushumi Bhattacharya as Pratap's sister in-law * Rumpa Das as Pratap's sister * Fahim Mirza as

Rash Behari Bose Rash Behari Bose (; 25 May 1886 – 21 January 1945) was an Indian revolutionary leader and freedom fighter who fought against the British Empire. He was one of the key organisers of the Ghadar Mutiny and founded the Indian Independence Lea ...

* Debomoy Mukherjee as

Hemanta Kumar Sarkar Hemanta Kumar Sarkar (1897 – 3 November 1952) was an Indian philologist, author, biographer, editor, publisher, union leader, leader of the Indian freedom movement and an associate of Subhas Chandra Bose. He was a close friend and the first bi ...

* Siddhartha Shankar Chakraborty as Suresh Chandra Bose * Jagriti Goswami as Arunprabha Bose * Aditya Chowdhury as Sunil Chandra Bose * Indranil Mullick as Rono Dutta * Pritam Das as Charuchandra Gangopadhyay * Supratim Sinha as Dilipkumar Roy * Prriyam Chakraborty as Kalyani Das * Sahana Sen as Basanti Devi * Kunal Banerjee as Nanda. *

Janakinath Bose Janakinath Bose (also Janaki Nath Bose; 28 May 1860 – 2 December 1934) was an Indian lawyer and advocate, who was the father of Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose and barrister Sarat Chandra Bose. Early life Bose was born in th ...

* Abhijit Debroy as Anupama's father * Mayna Banerjee as Anupama's mother * Mridul Majumdar as Abdul * Debaparna Chakraborty as Anupama Dutta * Sananda Basak as Pramilabala Mitra * Ishani Sengupta as Saralabala Dey *

Subhrajit Dutta Subhrajit Dutta is an Indian film and theatre actor who appears in Bengali language, Bengali films and television serials. Some of the notable Bengali films he acted in include ''Ebar Shabor'', Manojder Adbhut Bari, ''Eagoler Chokh'', ''Double F ...

Chittaranjan Das Chittaranjan Das (5 November 1870 – 16 June 1925), popularly called ''Deshbandhu'' (friend of the country), was a Bengali freedom fighter, political activist and lawyer during the Indian Independence Movement and the political guru of Indi ...

* Arup Poddar as Son of CR Das * Prantik Banerjee as Ananto Rai * Priyam as Sudhir Chandra Bose * Ayush Das as young Sudhir Chandra Bose * Anirban Guha as Beni Madhab Das * Arghya Mukherjee as Akshay Kumar Dey Biswas * Abanti Dutta as Subala Dey Biswas * Shankar Malakar as Ajit Dey Biswas * Ranjini Chatterjee as Lalita Sen * Subhajit Banerjee as Manmotho Sen * Achintya Kumar Moitro as Mohan Maharaj * Swarnadipto Ghosh as

* Swarnav Banerjee as Chittapriya Ray Chaudhuri * Debanjan Chatterjee as Swami Vivekananda * Rahul Sen as Manoranjan Sengupta * Sanmitra Bhowmik as Jyotishchandra Pal * * Biplab Dasgupta as Debendranath Bose * Chaitali Mukhopaddhay as Renubala Bose * Somjita Bhattacharya as Manuda * Runa Bandopadhyay as Prabhabati's aunt * Ashok Mukherjee as Prabhabati's uncle * Jayanta Banerjee as Sonailal Dutta *

Kaushik Banerjee Kaushik Banerjee is an Indian actor who is known for his work in Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali cinema. He has appeared in more than a 100 films throughout his career of four decades. Born to the ace actor Haradhan Bannerjee, he made his actin ...

as Kedarnath Bose * Madhumita Chakrabarty as Madhuri Bose * Trilok Nath Thander as Nirendranath Dasgupta * Subrata Guha Roy as Mukunda Ghosh * Arka Dasgupta as Charles Richardson *

Bharat Kaul Bharat Kaul is an Indian actor mainly known for villainous and antagonistic roles in Bengali films. He has also appeared in Hindi films. He is a Vice President of the "West Bengal Motion Picture Artists' Forum" along with Sabyasachi Chakrabar ...

Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser Sir Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser (14 November 1848 – 26 February 1919) was a British officer of the Indian Civil Service and the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal between 1903 and 1908. Early life and education Born in Bombay on 14 Novem ...

* Aritra Dutta as

Hemchandra Kanungo Hemchandra Das Kanungo (4 August 1871 – 8 April 1951) was an Indian nationalist and a member of the Anushilan Samiti. Kanungo travelled to Paris in 1907, where he learnt the technique of assembling picric acid bombs from exiled Russian revolu ...

* Diganta Saha as Sushil Sen * Diganta Das as Shyam Sundar Chakravarthy * Samiul Alam as

* Soumendra Bhattacharya as

Prafulla Chaki Prafulla Chandra Chaki (, ''Prafulla Chaki'' alias Dinesh Chandra Roy) (10 December 1888 – 2 May 1908) was an Indian revolutionary associated with the Jugantar group of revolutionaries who carried out assassination attempt against British ...

* Tania Kar as Aparupa Roy * Lakshya Punjabi as

Kirpal Singh Kirpal Singh (6 February 1894 – 21 August 1974) was a spiritual master ('' satguru'') in the tradition of Radha Soami. Kirpal Singh was born in Sayyad Kasran, Punjab, in what is now Pakistan. He lived in Lahore during the period of his dis ...

* Madhubani Goswami as Sarala Devi * Indrajit Mazumder as Prof. E.F. Oaten * Gopal Talukder as Shubendu Sarkar * Bhola Tamang as Kalochin * Siddhartha Ghosh as Biren Dutta Gupta * Shaktipada Dey as DSP Shamsul Alam * Sayanjit Ghosh Dastidar as

Ullaskar Dutta Ullaskar Dutta (16 April 1885 – 17 May 1965) was an Indian revolutionary associated with Anushilan Samiti and Jugantar of Bengal, and was a close associate of Barindra Ghosh. He was the principal bomb maker of the Jugantar group until Hemc ...

Chandan Sen Chandan Sen is an Indian Bengali language, Bengali-language stage, television and film actor, playwright and director. Career He started acting in Bengali theatre in 1977. He joined ''Natya Anan'' theatre group as a creative director and an ac ...

Dwijendralal Ray Dwijendralal Ray (19 July 1863 – 17 May 1913), also known as D. L. Ray, was a Bengali poet, playwright, and musician. He was known for his Hindu mythological and nationalist historical plays and songs known as '' Dwijendrageeti'' or the ''Songs ...

* Manoj Ojha as

* Kanyakumari Mukherjee as Mrinalini Devi:

's wife. * Ishani Das as Sarojini Devi:

's sister *

Dwaipayan Das ''Joyee'' is a Bengali language, Bengali television soap opera that premiered on 9 October 2017. It aired on Zee Bangla. It was produced by Tent Cinema and it starred Debadrita Basu and Dibyojyoti Dutta. It also presents Sanchari Mondal, Mimi ...

as Barin Ghosh * Animesh Bhaduri as Bhupendranath Dutta * Amitava Bhattacharya as Dr. Joydeb Sanyal * Sagorika Roy as Joydeb's wife * Sukanya Basu as Kalpona Dutta * Biswajit Ghosh as Kanailal Dutta

References

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