Story – In the second episode of the web series Bose: Dead/ Alive, we see the shadowy figure of a man in a train. His face is hidden underneath a big hat, and covered by a long, scraggly beard. Surrounded by a thick cloud of cigarette smoke, there is mystery in the air. The cigarette in his hands, is the clue to his identity. Until now, he has been seen chain smoking, sometimes sharing a cigarette with his jailor in prison and even giving a young girl the first puff of a cigarette at an arranged matrimonial meet with her. He is quite the cool dude. He is Bose, the most wanted man by the British, following reports of his death in a plane crash in Japan.
Premise. On 18 August 1945 after his overloaded Japanese plane crashed in Japanese-occupied Formosa (now Taiwan) Subhas Chandra Bose (Rajkumar Rao) is presumed dead. However his family in Kolkata receive a telegram from Mahatma Gandhi to not conduct his last rites.