Wednesday 5 September 2018

NETAJI --- MAN, MYSTERY AND MYTH ... 20


NETAJI --- MAN, MYSTERY AND MYTH ... 20

FORGET NOT THE MASSACRES AT NEELGUNGE AND JHIKARGACHHA

Barbarism of the British and betrayal by Nehru! What more of an illustration would you want than what is evident in this video that depicts the darkest and the most dastardly deed of the British in the dying days of the Raj, a regime noxious to the core and one that had ever been so mischievously vociferous about the so-called Black Hole Tragedy of 1756 whose historicity is very much in doubt and may have been concocted largely to malign the Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah, and yet, so cunningly brushed under the carpet this terrible tragedy of INA soldiers captured and executed by it, defying the Geneva Convention with utter disdain.

A word to the director of this documentary film now. When the interviews of witnesses to the nocturnal event at Neelgunge are going on, why have you been so insensitive as to put on voluble background music in the form of INA songs that disturbs the concentration in picking up factual details given by the interviewees? Also, while narrating the flow of events of a happening of such historic significance as at Neelgunge, you ought not to have reduced the gravity of the situation by allowing the narrator license to unnecessary affectation of voice and diction and an uncalled for emotional effusion that has trivialised the tragedy unwittingly to an extent. Instead, you ought to have concentrated on giving relevant details more and in a manner that would have truly captured the imagination of the audience and brought alive the historic episode vividly.

Kindly make a series of videos on Neelgunge and Jhikargachha to keep alive the memory of the INA soldiers who fell on those fell nights and to never let the people of India forget the dastardly deeds of the brutal British regime that ravaged the motherland for two centuries and more. Such videos will spread awareness among the people and bring home the truths of the freedom movement and all its associated evils perpetrated by the British and their Indian agents who later became prominent leaders in independent India and to this day enjoy pride of place in having supposedly liberated her from British bondage while the glorious sacrifices of the INA soldiers have been buried deep in the womb of officially engineered oblivion.

The director of this documentary film has sounded through his creative endeavour a clarion call to the citizenry to awake to the perfidies of the past and arise to redress the long-lost national balance consequent on the banishment from the polity of the INA and its Netaji. And my heartfelt thankfulness for it, dear director. Jai Hind!

Written by Sugata Bose

Given below is the video link from YouTube in response to which this article has been written :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZVs3R82kko

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