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The cinematography of the film 'Gumnami' is breathtaking and reminiscent of Steven Spielberg's 'Jurassic Park', to my reckoning at least. The shots of Netaji crossing the Burmese rivers overbridge had a giant impact on the viewer. The documentary-type beginning of the film was also captivating and promised much for the rest of the film to follow.
What transpired, though, may be summed up in mainly two phases, namely, the aircrash theory and the Faizabad monk theory. The first phase brought out the director's master craft as it had a strong well-linked narrative whereas the second phase had the director somewhat groping in the dark for connective links which, owing to paucity of credible data, were wanting. The handling of the aircrash phase was, thus, of the first order while the treatment of the Gumnami Baba phase was shabby and the narrative incoherent. Fitted into the monk incognito phase were shown flashes of the Russian angle with Netaji being supposedly tortured in incarceration.
Running through all this is the life of Chandrachur Dhar, a journalist of a newspaper entrusted with fact-finding and reporting about the Netaji disappearance issue, one who becomes so absolutely engrossed in his mission of discovery that his personal life is reduced to ruins.
End of Part 3
To be continued...
Written by Sugata Bose
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