DIRECTOR CRUSHES HISTORIAN IN TELEVISION PANEL DISCUSSION
Director Srijit Mukherjee crushes historian Sugata Bose's every argument. The professor is caught napping at every turn and repeatedly resorts to emotional quotes, inconsequential references and occasional uncalled-for verbal tirades against the director and a so-called extreme right wing nefarious organisation that is apparently intent on maligning Netaji. He tries to deflect attention from the main issue of the disappearance mystery and seems unduly offensive. A better display of logic and accurate erudition by way of countering Mukherjee's statements is expected of a Harvard professor but it truly is a sham of a performance by one esteemed much in academic quarters as a biographer of Netaji. Conflating issues is his prime technique but it does not work at all before the intelligent defence of the director of 'Gumnami' who patiently takes in the professor's indiscreet and indecent assault before boring his arguments down with characteristic aplomb. The historian lies smashed at the end of the 'debate' in which more often than not the moderator pleads on his behalf to save him, perhaps, from further discomfiture.
We all await to see the film 'Gumnami' and expect it to be a live wire feature when its maker himself is such a capable defender of his project as is amply evidenced in his smashing performance in his verbal duel with his eventually destroyed adversary despite the latter's awesome academic credentials.
Written by Sugata Bose
Director Srijit Mukherjee crushes historian Sugata Bose's every argument. The professor is caught napping at every turn and repeatedly resorts to emotional quotes, inconsequential references and occasional uncalled-for verbal tirades against the director and a so-called extreme right wing nefarious organisation that is apparently intent on maligning Netaji. He tries to deflect attention from the main issue of the disappearance mystery and seems unduly offensive. A better display of logic and accurate erudition by way of countering Mukherjee's statements is expected of a Harvard professor but it truly is a sham of a performance by one esteemed much in academic quarters as a biographer of Netaji. Conflating issues is his prime technique but it does not work at all before the intelligent defence of the director of 'Gumnami' who patiently takes in the professor's indiscreet and indecent assault before boring his arguments down with characteristic aplomb. The historian lies smashed at the end of the 'debate' in which more often than not the moderator pleads on his behalf to save him, perhaps, from further discomfiture.
We all await to see the film 'Gumnami' and expect it to be a live wire feature when its maker himself is such a capable defender of his project as is amply evidenced in his smashing performance in his verbal duel with his eventually destroyed adversary despite the latter's awesome academic credentials.
Written by Sugata Bose
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