Neta-Ji Or Actor Who Played Him? Row Over Rashtrapati Bhawan Portrait

Kolkata:

A portrait of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose unveiled by the President at Rashtrapati Bhavan is that of an actor who performed him in a biopic, claimed posts on social media that have been discredited at the moment by authorities sources.

President Ram Nath Kovind unveiled Netaji’s portrait on Saturday to mark his delivery anniversary, named “Parakram Diwas” by the Centre. A publish on his timeline went viral with many customers claiming the portrait was really one in every of Prosenjit Chatterjee, who performed Netaji within the 2019 biopic “Gumnami”.

BJP sources rubbished the cost, asserting that the picture was supplied by Netaji’s household to well-known Padma Shri award profitable artist Paresh Maity, who painted the portrait. “The picture doesn’t resemble Prosenjit in any respect. It’s an pointless controversy,” the sources stated.

Chandra Kumar Bose, Netaji’s grand-nephew and a member of the BJP, additionally posted what he stated was the picture given for the portrait.

Portrait unveiled by the Hon’ble President of India-Shri Ram Nath Kovind ji @rashtrapatibhvn relies on #Netaji‘s authentic {photograph}.Its an artists impression of #Netaji. https://t.co/chtZk1a9l2pic.twitter.com/MkQGEtFq5d

— Chandra Kumar Bose (@Chandrakbose) January 25, 2021

Amongst those that ridiculed the portrait was Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, who tweeted: “After donating Rs 5 lakhs to the Ram temple the President honours Netaji by unveiling a portrait of Prasenjit, the actor who performed him in biopic God Save India (as a result of this authorities definitely cannot).” She has now deleted the tweet.

A number of posts on Twitter that made an identical declare have now been eliminated.

BJP’s social media chief Amit Malviya, in-charge of Bengal, posted a pointy rejoinder: ” If the neo-Bengal consultants are accomplished making a idiot of themselves, outraging over the portrait of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, unveiled by the President of India, let me remind them that each one their misplaced activism will not be capable of save Mamata Banerjee…”

President Kovind unveils the portrait of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at Rashtrapati Bhavan to commemorate his one hundred and twenty fifth delivery anniversary celebrations. pic.twitter.com/Y3BnylwA8X

— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) January 23, 2021

That is unbelievably hilarious. The Portrait that President of India Unveiled, it’s is of Actor Prosenjit who performed function of Netaji (Have a look at Eyes). That is like unveiling Portrait of Ajay Devgan as Bhagat Singh https://t.co/voRxerFmoU

— Pleasure (@Joydas) January 25, 2021

Severely???

— Amy Kazmin (@AmyKazmin) January 25, 2021

In his function as Netaji, Bengali film star Prosenjit Chatterjee bears a hanging resemblance to the famend freedom icon within the 2019 movie and he reportedly used prosthetics for his transformation. The credit score for at the moment’s debate, due to this fact, goes to his make-up artiste, it was identified.

The next is the image on the premise of which the portray at Rashtrapati Bhawan was painted by Paresh Maity. For any similarity of Prosenjit’s look to this picture, the credit score goes to Somnath Kundu. #Gumnaami@prosenjitbumbapic.twitter.com/Lhy5FTzjtt

— Srijit Mukherji (@srijitspeaketh) January 25, 2021

His identify is Somnath Kundu. He has been doing exemplary work underneath ridiculously restricted sources in movies like Dhananjoy, Zulfiqar, Ek Je Chhilo Raja, Vinci Da & Agantuk. He ought to have gotten a minimum of two Nationwide awards by now. He’s unknown as a result of he’s frm the mistaken ‘wooden’. https://t.co/ipAiqcYIXT

— Srijit Mukherji (@srijitspeaketh) January 25, 2021

The declare that his portrait is up as Netaji’s at Rashtrapati Bhavan impressed a number of memes and jokes on Twitter, with individuals calling for the inauguration of a portrait of Ben Kingsley as Mahatma Gandhi and Vivek Oberoi as Narendra Modi.

Lastly, the actor himself tweeted.

Wish to congratulate Paresh Maity for the fantastic piece of artwork in remembrance of our Nationwide hero Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. As an Actor,I am elated that individuals thought,that the portray resembles my character in Gumnami,dir. by @srijitspeaketh and prosthetics by Somnath pic.twitter.com/HBkXvwFFSw

— Prosenjit Chatterjee (@prosenjitbumba) January 25, 2021

That is the most recent within the intense tussle over Bengal’s icons within the bitter lead-up to elections within the state in April-Could.

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Netaji’s delivery anniversary on Saturday, had refused to finish her speech after “Jai Sri Ram” slogans have been raised by BJP supporters at a mega occasion on the iconic Victoria Memorial within the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Even at the moment, she accused the BJP, her important challenger, of attempting to acceptable Bengal’s legends and exploiting them to reel in voters.

Ms Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress has attacked the BJP over blunders like mistakenly naming Shantiniketan as Rabindranath Tagore’s birthplace as an alternative of Jorasanko in Kolkata and Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah’s floral tributes to a statue that was not tribal chief Birsa Munda’s.