There are some important legends celluloid ignores, and Subhash Chandra Bose surely ranks among them. Brushed dismissively aside for the terrific Gandhi, directed by Richard Attenborough, the lack of Bengali filmmakers in mainstream Hindi cinema have made sure there weren't portrayals of Bose, unlike the Patels and even the Godses.

Shyam Benegal is trying to right that, with his ambitious Bose: The Forgotten Hero, a big-budget film skirted in paradox: it deals with the last five years of his life, while not covering his death.

Sachin Khedekar plays Bose, and the film goes on to include his life's story in flashback sequences.