Gumnaami

This movie is based on the book Conundrum, written by Anuj Dhar and Chandrachur Ghose. Anuj Dhar has also written India's Biggest Cover-up and What Happened to Netaji. For those who have read these books, the movie provides a visual representation to the facts and incidents that are mentioned in the books.

To those who have not read the books, this movie will give you a sense of the tremendous injustice meted out to India's greatest freedom fighter who sacrificed his entire life for his beloved motherland.

Must watch for all. Please go and watch. Feel for the person who was extraordinary. Feel the energy. Go and cry for him. And shout Jai Hind. India is always proud of him and we Will always miss our hero.

The movie is research oriented. Every statement stated by the actors about Netaji and various other Historical Characters are actually hard facts. The supporting story signifies what amount of work has been devoted into the research. I don't believe there was a better way to put this story. It will be unfair to rate this as substandard. And NO! This movie is not a "melodramatic hodgepodge" nor does it "lose the way after intermission". These reviews are misleading and mischievously done. Anyone even with a bit of spine left in them would love to face the truth about the fact that GoI lacked the spine to accept and give proper honor to "The Real Father of the Nation" and the "Greatest Son of India".

He was a freedom fighter. However, to his party, his approach was neither quintessential nor nonparallel... and as it turns out he made the list of war criminals by allied forces...he traveled to many countries from Maldives to Singapore to Vietnam to Formosa - Taiwan, Germany to to Japan .. 3 commissions- Shahnaeaz (1956), Khosla (1970) and Mukherjee (2005) , each spent years and years and tons of taxpayers' money to denude the circumstances surrounding his death...even after 75 years, some critical secrets still remain classified... somewhere in the Indian government, there is an impenetrable, unaccountable power that no administration as of today has been able to bring the truth about the account of his life after his fraudulent death date to the public .. A tenacious cynical journalist on a mission to find the truth and unveil it .. somewhat run-of-the-mill performances and wished the commission sequence had continued in Hindi but well, a typical Bengali pomposity was evident after all :-) ... but overall great movie and very less known facts make it a must watch..

What worked: This movie deserves a praise and worth sometime considering the subject of the movie. The movie should be applauded for their work and choosing such a complex story. They also deserve praise for their interesting storytelling. The use of colored and black and white frame is commendable and the cinematographer has done some fine job in most part of the movie. So does the background score. It's often hard to make a movie with such complex character, often disputing the government and intensive hard work on the topic

What did not work: The songs especially at the end was a bore for me. Some of the camera work is weak at times. With all its technical flaws, it's still a very watchable movie Final verdict: definitely recommended