Netaji (2019 TV series)
Netaji (English: Respected Leader) is a Bengali historical soap opera on the life of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose that premiered on 14 January 2019 and airs on Bengali GEC Zee Bangla.[1][2] Based majorly on Udyata Kharga Subhash by Achintya Kumar Sengupta and produced by Surinder Films , the series stars [3]Abhishek Bose in the eponymous role, with[4] Basabdatta Chatterjee, marking her comeback on television, Dhruvajyoti Sarkar, Kaushik Chakraborty, Sriparna Roy, Debopriyo Sarkar, Sohan Bandopadhyay, Fahim Mirza appearing in other recurring roles.[5]Due to COVID-19 pandemic, the shooting of the series was stalled. It was rumoured that along with Karunamoyee Rani Rashmoni , this series will be axed the channel.[6] 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.[7] The series started to air on 11 PM from July 07, 2020 giving space for another series Kadambini to be aired in the 08:30 PM slot. The show went off air on 1st August 2020.
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Genre | Drama Patriotic |
Created by | Surinder Films |
Written by | Saswati Ghosh Malova Majumdar Priyanka Seth |
Directed by | Suman Das
Sibangshu Dasgupta Pavel Ghosh Amit Das Gopal Chakraborty |
Creative director(s) | Rai Sengupta |
Starring | Abhishek Bose Basabdatta Chatterjee Dhruvojyoti Sarkar |
Voices of | Rupam Islaam & Chorus |
Theme music composer | Debojyoti Mishra |
Composer(s) | Debojyoti Mishra
Upali Chattopadhyay Debjit Roy (Background Music) |
Country of origin | India |
Original language(s) | Bengali |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 416 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Krrishanu Ganguly Aniruddha Ghosh |
Producer(s) | Surinder Singh Nispal Singh |
Production location(s) | Kolkata |
Cinematography | Paritosh Singh |
Running time | 22 minutes |
Production company(s) | Surinder Films |
Release | |
Original network | Zee Network |
Picture format | 576i SDTV 1080i HDTV |
Original release | January 14, 2019 – August 1, 2020 |
Plot
This show is a biographical drama, depicting the life of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. 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 Cuttack.
From episode 231 the series transitions to his later life, and his attendance at the Presidency College in Kolkata. 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, Sri Aurobindo, Khudiram Bose and many others associated with the Swadeshi movement . Often regarded as the greatest leader of the Indian Freedom Struggle, he fearlessly led his Indian National Army to war against the British, inspiring mass revolts and mutinies throughout the country, ultimately resulting in India's independence.
Cast
- Abhishek Bose as Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose[8]
- Ankit Mazumder as young Subhas
- Basabdatta Chatterjee as Prabhabati Bose
- Dhrubajyoti Sarkar as Sarat Chandra Bose
- Sriparna Roy as Bibhabati Bose
- Saugata Bandyopadhyay as Ashoke Nath Bose[9]
- Diya Mukherjee as Sarbani Roy Choudhury (Bani)[10]
- Rob Dey as Sisir Kumar Bose
- Ashmee Ghosh as Ila Bose
- Recurring
- Debopriyo Mukherjee as Mahatma Gandhi[11]
- Debdut Ghosh as Rabindranath Tagore[12]
- Sohan Bandopadhyay as Charles Tegart
- Nilanjan Datta as Inspector Shiben Chowdhury
- Anik Dey as Inspector Suresh Sarkhel
- Neil Chatterjee as Pratap Babu
- Fahim Mirza as Rash Behari Bose
- Debomoy Mukherjee as Hemanta Kumar Sarkar
- Siddartha 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
- Former Cast
- Kaushik Chakraborty as Janakinath Bose
- Debaparna Chakraborty as Anupama Dutta
- Sananda Basak as Pramilabala Mitra
- Ishani Sengupta as Saralabala Dey
- Subhrajit Dutta as Chittaranjan Das
- Prantik Banerjee as Ananto Rai
- Priam as Sudhir Chandra Bose
- Ayush Das as younger Sudhir Chandra Bose
- Anirban Guha as Beni Madhab Das
- Swarnodipto Ghosh as Bagha Jatin
- Swarnav Banerjee as Chittapriya Ray Chaudhuri
- Rahul Sen as Manoranjan Sengupta
- Biplab Dasgupta as Debendranath Bose
- Arka Dasgupta as Charles Richardson
- Bharat Kaul as Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser
- Aritra Dutta as Hemchandra Kanungo
- Diganta Saha as Sushil Sen
- Diganta Das as Shyam Sundar Chakravarthy
- Samiul Alam as Khudiram Bose
- Soumendra Bhattacharya as Prafulla Chaki
- Tania Kar as Aparupa Roy
- Lakshya Punjabi as Kirpal Singh
- Madhubani Goswami as Sarala Devi
- Indrajit Mazumder as Professor E.F. Oaten
- Bhola Tamang as Kalochin
- Siddhartha Ghosh as Biren Dutta Gupta
- Raghubir as Deputy Superintendent Officer Samsul Alam
- Sayanjit Ghosh Dastidar as Ullaskar Dutta
- Guest Stars
- Chandan Sen as Dwijendralal Ray
- Manoj Ojha as Sri Aurobindo
- Dwaipayan Das as Barin Ghosh
- Animesh Bhaduri as Bhupendranath Dutta
References
- "Television serial based on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's life to premiere soon".
- "Netaji Upcoming Serial from 14 January only on Zee Bangla". mahanagar24x7.com. 2 January 2019.
- "TV Show Netaji to Premiere this month". timesofindia.com. 2 January 2019.
- "5 things that television industry will observe in 2019".
- "TV show 'Netaji' crosses 350 episodes".
- "TV channel assures to continue 'Rani Rashmoni', 'Netaji' and other shows along with launching new ones".
- "Bengali TV shoots to resume from June 11".
- "Zee Bangla Serial Netaji Abhishek Basu to play lead role".
- "Actor Saugata Bandyopadhyay joins the cast of TV show 'Netaji'".
- "Diya Mukherjee joins the cast of 'Netaji'".
- "I had goosebumps while playing Gandhi Ji's character".
- "Debdut Ghosh to play Rabindranath Tagore on TV".