''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 Indians, but his wartime alliances with Nazi Germany and Imperi ...

that premiered on 14 January 2019 and aired on Bengali GEC

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. Based majorly on ''Udyata Kharga Subhash'' by

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and produced by Surinder Films, the series stars Abhishek Bose in the eponymous role, with

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, 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 ''

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'', this series will be axed the channel. Putting rest to such rumours, the shooting started from June 11, maintaining all safety protocols and fresh episodes started to air from June 15, 2020. The series started to air on 11 PM from July 7, 2020, giving space for another series ''Kadambini'' to be aired in the 08:30 PM slot. The show went off air on 1 August 2020. The show is dubbed in Hindi and currently forecasted on

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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

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, Sri Aurobindo,

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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 Indian National Army to war against the

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

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Cast

* Abhishek Bose as

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 Indians, but his wartime alliances with Nazi Germany and Imperi ...

** Ankit Mazumder as young Subhas Chandra Bose *

Prabhabati Bose Prabhabati Bose (''née'' Dutta) was an Indian social activist and politician. She was born in 1869 into a respected Kayastha Bharadwaja clan Dutta family of Hatkhola, in Calcutta North. Her parents were Ganganarayan Dutta and Kamala Kamini ...

* Dhrubajyoti Sarkar as

Sarat Chandra Bose Sarat Chandra Bose ( Bengali: শরৎচন্দ্র বসু) (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 Cutta ...

* Sriparna Roy as Bibhabati Bose * Saugata Bandyopadhyay as Ashoke Nath Bose * Diya Mukherjee as Sarbani Roy Choudhury (Bani) * 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 husband ...

* Ashmee Ghosh as Ila Bose * Debopriyo Mukherjee as

Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (; ; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist Quote: "... marks Gandhi as a hybrid cosmopolitan figure who transformed ... anti- ...

* Debdut Ghosh as

Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...

* Sohan Bandopadhyay as Charles Tegart * Nilanjan Datta as Inspector Shiben Chowdhury * Shyamashis Pahari as Inspector Suresh Sarkhel * Neil Chatterjee as Pratap Babu * Fahim Mirza as

Rash Behari Bose Rash Behari Bose (; 25 May 1886 – 21 January 1945) was an Indian revolutionary leader against the British Raj. He was one of the key organisers of the Ghadar Mutiny and founded the First Indian National Army during World War 2. The Indian N ...

* Debomoy Mukherjee as Hemanta Kumar Sarkar * 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 Dilip Kumar Roy (22 January 1897 – 6 January 1980), also spelt Dilipkumar Roy, was an Indian musician, singer, musicologist, novelist, poet, essayist and yogi. He was the son of Dwijendralal Ray (or Roy). In 1965, the Sangeet Natak Akademi, In ...

* Prriyam Chakraborty as

Kalyani Das Kalyani Das (1907–1983) was an Indian revolutionary and nationalist from Bengal. Education She was a student of Ravenshaw Collegiate School, Cuttack. Das finished her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1928. Participation in India's freedom stru ...

* Sahana Sen as

Basanti Devi Basanti Devi (23 March 1880 – 7 May 1974) was an Indian independence activist during the British rule in India. She was the wife of activist Chittaranjan Das. After Das' arrest in 1921 and death in 1925, she took an active part in various po ...

* Kunal Banerjee as Nanda.

Former cast

* Kaushik Chakraborty as

Janakinath Bose Janakinath Bose (Bengali: জানকীনাথ বসু) (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. He is also the fath ...

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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 films and television serials. Some of the notable Bengali films he acted in include '' Ebar Shabor'', Manojder Adbhut Bari, '' Eagoler Chokh'', '' Double Feluda''. Career ...

Chittaranjan Das Chittaranjan Das (5 November 1870 – 16 June 1925), popularly called ''Deshbandhu'' (Friend of the Nation), was an Indian freedom fighter, political activist and lawyer during the Indian independence movement and founder-leader of the Swara ...

* Prantik Banerjee as Ananto Rai * Priyam as Sudhir Chandra Bose ** Ayush Das as young Sudhir Chandra Bose * Anirban Guha as Beni Madhab Das * Swarnadipto Ghosh as

* Swarnav Banerjee as Chittapriya Ray Chaudhuri * Rahul Sen as Manoranjan Sengupta * Biplab Dasgupta as Debendranath Bose * Trilok Nath Thander as Nirendranath Dasgupta * 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. Filmography Television References External links * 21st-century Indian male actors 20th-centu ...

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* 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 revol ...

* Diganta Saha as

Sushil Sen Sushil Kumar Sen (Bengali: সুশীল কুমার সেন; 1892 – 3 May 1915) participated in the Indian Independence Movement. Life Sushilkumar Senorn in a family of revolutionaries. A meritorious student, he had his early educa ...

* Diganta Das as Shyam Sundar Chakraborty * Samiul Alam as

* Soumendra Bhattacharya as

Prafulla Chaki Prafulla Chandra Chaki ( bn, প্রফুল্ল চাকী, ''Prafulla Chaki'' alias Dinesh Chandra Roy) (10 December 1888 – 1 May 1908) was an Indian revolutionary associated with the Jugantar group of revolutionaries who carried o ...

* 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 disc ...

* Madhubani Goswami as Sarala Devi * Indrajit Mazumder as Professor E.F. Oaten * 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 nath Ghosh. Early life Ullaskar was born in the village of Kalikachha in ...

Chandan Sen Chandan Sen (born 26 February 1963) is an Indian 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 ...

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

* Manoj Ojha as Sri Aurobindo * Kanyakumari Mukherjee as Mrinalini Devi * Ishani Das as Sarojini Devi * Dwaipayan Das as

Barin Ghosh Barindra Kumar Ghosh or Barindra Ghosh, or, popularly, Barin Ghosh (5 January 1880 – 18 April 1959) was an Indian revolutionary and journalist. He was one of the founding members of Jugantar Bengali weekly, a revolutionary outfit in Bengal. ...

* Animesh Bhaduri as

Bhupendranath Dutta Bhupendranath Datta (4 September 1880 – 25 December 1961) was an Indian revolutionary and later a noted sociologist and anthropologist. He associated Rishi Aurobindo in his political works. In his youth, he was closely associated with the Ju ...

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