Freaking over Films

One of the scenes in the Forgotten Army has an old and now retired Colonel Sodhi telling his young nephew “ Azaadi Kayam Rakhne ki ladai zyaada mushkil hai, aur wo ladai ab tumlogon ko ladni hai ”, a metaphor perfectly resonating with the present-day state of affairs in India.  The Forgotten Army- Azaadi Ke Liye , by Kabir Khan, an unequivocal critic of the contemporary nationalist regime is an unbiased depiction of a peripheral chapter of India’s colonial history. The 5-part series takes a trip down history where along the margins of the Indian independence movement, Subhash Chandra Bose forges the formation of the Indian National Army in Japan to contest the British rule in India.   The narrative depicted through the recollections of Surinder Sodhi an officer in the Indian National Army, traverses back and forth where a young Sodhi (Sunny Kaushal) is inducted in the Azad Hind Fauj stirred by the war cry  Challo Dilli  made by Netaji in Singapore while the present day Sodhi h