Bose demands Fauzi teaser be withdrawn over Netaji scene

Chandra Kumar Bose, grandnephew of Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose, has demanded an apology and the withdrawal of a teaser for the film Fauzi, saying it misrepresents his great-uncle’s 1942 meeting with Adolf Hitler. In a post on X on October 26 and in comments to IANS, Bose objected to a scene in which Subhas Chandra Bose introduces Prabhas’s fictional character to Hitler as an Indian operative. He urged director Hanu Raghavapudi and the film’s team to remove the teaser and issue a replacement that, in his view, does not distort history. He also called for a public apology. The teaser, released on October 23, opens with a dramatization of the meeting in Berlin. It presents the fictional protagonist as a spy, soldier and strategist whose actions damaged British intelligence operations. The reported objection centers on the scene’s use of a real historical figure to introduce and promote an invented character. The sources distinguish the historical meeting from the exchange shown in the teaser: Subhas Chandra Bose did meet Hitler, but the conversation involving Prabhas’s character is fictional. The video also depicts the fictional operative as having a secret...