{"id":6102,"date":"2016-04-20T19:45:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T14:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=6102"},"modified":"2026-07-17T22:01:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:31:04","slug":"the-forgotten-army-review-kabir-khan-nationalism-subhash-chandra-bose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=6102","title":{"rendered":"The Forgotten Army Review: Kabir Khan\u2019s Story of Bose\u2019s INA Raises Pertinent Questions About Nationalism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"dropcap\">K<\/span>abir Khan is the newest addition to the list of mainstream Hindi filmmakers migrating to streaming platforms, attracted in part by the luxury of a broader canvas. Khan\u2019s predecessors \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/manmarziyaan-review-vicky-kaushal-anurag-kashyap-tapsee-pannu-abhishek-bachchan\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anurag Kashyap<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/6-years-of-lootera-vikramaditya-motwane-period-film-ranveer-singh-sonakshi-sinha\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vikramaditya Motwane<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/made-in-heaven-zoya-akhtar-myth-bollywood-marriages\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zoya Akhtar<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and Raj and DK \u2013 have in their own way, managed to create a distinctive lexicon for their web series, which can easily be separated from their Bollywood filmography. It\u2019s easy to tell why each of these directors felt the need to tell the stories that they did as a series instead of a film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The same can\u2019t be said about Khan\u2019s digital debut, <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Forgotten Army: Azaadi Ke Liye<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 now streaming on Prime Video \u2013 a war-epic that charts the formation of the Indian National Army, which predominantly feels like an extension of a Bollywood film. In a way, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Forgotten Army<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> signals what could be a crucial fault-line in the future of Indian streaming if filmmakers treat the medium as an off-shoot of Bollywood and not a separate entity. In the last year, Karan Johar\u2019s Dharma Productions has already revealed a worrying inclination toward viewing a platform like Netflix as its dumping ground, offloading a substandard film like <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/drive-review-sushant-singh-rajput-karan-johar\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Drive<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that shouldn\u2019t have been allowed to see the light of the day in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be fair, Khan fares significantly better, displaying an ambition toward scale and a steadfast refusal to politicise history to suit present-day ideologies (The use of archival footage is goosebump-inducing at times). Yet the occasional inventiveness of <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Forgotten Army<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is marred by the Bollywood treatment, that comes armed with an overload of information dressed as exposition, not-so-impressive CGI, broad, revisionist strokes, and an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/kumar-sanu-bollywood-90s-music\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arijit Singh<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-led soundtrack.<br><blockquote class=\"quote--center\">Ironically, for all its proclamations of equality, <em>The Forgotten Army<\/em> never shows the women in any battle sequences.<\/blockquote><br>As historical fiction, <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Forgotten Army<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is surprisingly lean: The show boasts of five episodes, all of which are 35-minute long, except for the finale. Khan adapts the series (the screenplay is written in collaboration with Shubhra Swaroop and Heeraz Marfatia) from his 1999 eponymous six-part docu-series. The director uses an ambitious flashback device to mount this retelling. The narratives play out in two alternate timelines \u2013 one that traces the three years of the Azad Hind Fauj from 1942 to 1945, and the other, that unfolds in the present in 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Khan narrates the story through the eyes of a colonel suffering from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/non-judgemental-gynecologist-women-contraception\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PTSD<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 Colonel Sodhi (Sunny Kaushal plays the younger soldier; MK Raina plays the older), an Indian soldier who fought for the British Indian Army. In 1942, when the British-controlled Singapore fell to the Japanese, Sodhi, along with 50,000 Indians, joined the INA (also known as the Azad Hind Fauj) and the show traces his journey across Burma. Sodhi\u2019s memories are intercut with the 1996 Burmese student protests that allow him an excuse to return to the country along with Amar (an awkward Karanvir Malhotra) his morally upright, photojournalist nephew, 50 years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s a storytelling device that initially seems like an overreach, given how stilted interactions between the older Sodhi and Amar are. At one point, Amar vomits out a Wikipedia page about The Battle of Singapore when Sodhi tests his history, that makes for an awkward scene. But over the course of the first two episodes, <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Forgotten Army <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">quietly settles with with this approach, permitting Khan the luxury to use one man\u2019s regrets, scars, and a flawed idea of nationalism to ruminate on the contradictions of history. According to the British, the Indian soldiers who joined the INA and allied with the Japanese were traitors. Even our history books, which reduce the INA\u2019s contributions to an afterthought, endorse this line of thinking as did subsequent governments that refused to grant freedom fighters\u2019 pension to the INA soldiers. Effectively, who history chooses to acknowledge as freedom fighters and the contributions of whom are easily forgotten, has more to do with convenience than accuracy. <em>The Forgotten Army<\/em> acts a worthy reminder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-58611\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1579875999.jpg\" alt=\"The Forgotten Army\" width=\"732\" height=\"407\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sodhi\u2019s fractured conscience offers <i>The Forgotten Army <\/i>a perfect backdrop to ruminate on the double-standards of pleading allegiance to the idea of a nation: In one scene, just before he joins the INA, Sodhi views fighting against the British <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/grub\/bsf-jawan-indian-army-navy-india-food-ration\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian Army<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as betrayal, and in another scene, he asks a fellow soldier whether they were blind or stupid to treat Britain as their nation. It is in moments like these that Khan throws up uncomfortable questions about the limitations of nationalism that is all the more pertinent today in the wake of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/anti-caa-nrc-protests-is-this-what-the-freedom-movement-felt-like\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">anti-CAA\/NRC protests<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> raging across the country. In their bid to fight for an independent India, the INA was effectively standing against the British, but they often clashed with their own countrymen who were part of the English army. What do you make of this brand of nationalism that at times, works against its own people? <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Forgotten Army<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> comes close to asking this question but always hesitates to answer it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much of it is because Khan never quite gets a grip on the complexities of his source material, employing instead a bird-eye\u2019s view of the events, skimming through the highlights instead of offering a vivid dissection. Even though <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Forgotten<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Army is a welcome departure from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/sports\/india-versus-pakistan-rivalry-treating-like-war\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hyper-jingoistic<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> historical epics that take to distorting history by retrofitting it to present agendas, it is also hesitant in adopting a clear stance. For instance, Khan paints the British in hyper-villainous strokes, but remains quite unclear about what to make of the Japanese, who terrorised, raped, and brutalised with impunity as well.\u00a0<\/span><br><blockquote class=\"quote--center\">Even though <em>The Forgotten Army<\/em> is a welcome departure from hyper-jingoistic historical epics, it is also hesitant in adopting a clear stance.<\/blockquote><br>Yet the show\u2019s weakest link is its gender politics \u2013 there\u2019s a generous dose of mansplaining and an exploitative sub-plot revolving around a raped plantation worker that brings to mind every Hindi film that has used &#8220;feminism&#8221; as a trump card. Even unforgivable is how <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Forgotten Army<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> gets its history wrong. More than once in the third episode, characters claim that women have never been sent to combat and that the INA\u2019s Rani of Jhansi Regiment was the first instance of a country doing so. Yet, a simple online search will confirm that both Spain and Russia did it before India. Ironically, for all its proclamations of equality, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Forgotten Army<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> never shows the women in any battle sequences. Even the action sequences, although choreographed with a perceptive eye for detail, are unable to evoke either a sense of urgency or geography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But beyond these complaints (getting Shah Rukh Khan on board as a narrator and then having him deliver what is essentially episode recaps is wasteful), the main letdown of <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Forgotten Army <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">remains that Khan doesn&#8217;t justify its existence as a five-episode series; it\u00a0 serves little purpose beyond shaking one&#8217;s conscience. It&#8217;s a noble enough reason to adapt a storied bit of history, but not entirely adequate. More so, because Khan neglects to <\/span>present a convincing rejoinder to the one overarching question that has always been on everyone&#8217;s minds: What was it exactly about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/netaji-bose-bjp-narendra-modi-congress-freedom-struggle\/\">Subhash Chandra Bose<\/a>, a man on the run from his own country, that drew 50,000 Indians toward him and sign up to be the forgotten army?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kabir Khan\u2019s Amazon show The Forgotten Army is a welcome departure from hyper-jingoistic historical epics that have become par for the course today. 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