If one had to single out one actor this year for the most outstanding work in Indian cinema, it would have to be Rajkummar Rao who flitted from the flirtatious in “Bareilly Ki Barfi” to the portentous in “Newton”.Bose: Dead/Alive Season 1 Download.
At the end of the year we saw Rao playing the much-misunderstood Subhash Chandra Bose in a series produced by Ekta Kapoor available on Kapoor’s streaming service AltBalaji.
The saga, directed by a young Bihari named Pulkit with an abundance of inputs from the series’ creative director Hansal Mehta, is spread over 9 episodes of 20 minutes each. I advise you to watch the entire series in one go to fully comprehend the resonant reach of the research that envelopes the gripping tale of a freedom fighter who defied Gandhian norms of anti-Colonialism to forge his own language of protest and to eventually form his own army.
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The entire series is designed as cat-and-mouse game between various representative of the British Raj and Bose, Rajkummar Rao taking us through the various stages of transition in the enigmatic leader’s life with a sure handed cockiness that never suggests a shred of smugness. Yup, Rao is at the peak of his excellence and enjoying every bit of it without growing complacent.
Bose’s early scenes of youthful rebellion in Kolkata are shot with a spry mischievousness .In one sequence he beats a Gora teaher with his chappal for insulting the Hindu religion and walks away from the mayhem with not an iota of fear or remorse, as the background score erupts with a “Bose Bose!” chant that Salman Khan would have wanted in his next “Dabangg” film.
