Portrait controversy: Netaji Bose or Prosenjit Chatterjee? Fact Check

President Ramnath Kovind inaugurated a portrait of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose at Rashtrapati Bhavan on the event of the good freedom fighter’s demise beginning anniversary on the twenty third of January. The President of India paid homage to the sacrifices of the legendary stalwart, nevertheless, it led to a ridiculous controversy. Prominent ‘journalists’ and politicians began claiming that the portrait was that of Bengali actress Prosenjit Chatterjee who had performed the character in a film.
President Kovind unveils the portrait of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at Rashtrapati Bhavan to commemorate his one hundred and twenty fifth beginning anniversary celebrations. pic.twitter.com/Y3BnylwA8X— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) January 23, 2021
Barkha Dutt, former NDTV ‘journalist’, mentioned, “I wish this were a headline from the Onion. I had to look twice to make sure it had actually happened. How utterly embarrassing”.
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One Adil Hossain seems to have performed a outstanding function in spreading the declare that the portrait inaugurated by President Kovind was, in reality, Prosenjit Chatterjee. He mentioned, “President of India unveils the official portrait of, yes believe me, of actor Prasenjit Chatterjee (Bumbada) and not Netaji at the Rashtrapati bhavan. Bumbada acted as Netaji in Srijit Mukherjee directed film Gumnaami. Hail the casting”.
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Another person, @Joydas, well-liked in liberal circles, claimed the identical factor. He urged individuals to concentrate on the portrait’s eyes.
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Mahua Moitra, the TMC MP who fancies herself because the desi model of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, was fast to leap into the state of affairs as effectively.
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When all his comrades had jumped in, how might Sidharth Bhatia, the founder-editor of the far-left propaganda portal The Wire, be far behind?
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Rohini Singh, too, participated within the charade, as she usually does. She didn’t overlook to take a jib at Kangana Ranaut as effectively.
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Sagarika Ghose went to the extent of demanding that the portrait of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose be eliminated claiming that it was Prosenjit Chatterjee.
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Another propagandist, Swati Chaturvedi, was additionally a part of the fracas.
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Was it actually Prosenjit Chatterjee within the portrait of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose?
Thus, we arrive at a pertinent query right here. Was it actually the portrait of Prosenjit Chatterjee as is being claimed or is it propaganda directed at hurting BJP’s electoral prospects forward of the West Bengal Assembly Elections?
First and foremost, it’s abundantly clear on the first look itself that it couldn’t be Prosenjit Chatterjee who performed the character in a film. The variations are so nice that it compels one to ask if it was certainly an harmless mistake on the a part of clowns or a part of a political agenda.
The portrait of Netaji on the Left and Prosenjit Chatterjee on the precise
Chandra Kumar Bose, the grand-nephew of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, had shared {a photograph} of the good chief in January 2020 which makes it abundantly clear that the portrait inaugurated by President Kovind is, in reality, that of Netaji himself.
Photograph of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose shared by his grand-nephew
Now it has come to gentle that it was the identical {photograph} on which by a Bengali painter of reputation and Padma Shri Awardee Paresh Maity based mostly his portrait on. His signature is seen on the backside proper nook of the portrait.
The portrait is the work of a Bengali painter of reputation and Padma Shri Awardee Paresh Maity
Thus, the similarity between the {photograph} of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose shared by his grand-nephew and the work of Paresh Maity is greater than evident when a comparability is made. Therefore, claims that it’s really Prosenjit Chatterjee within the portrait inaugurated by President Kovind will be summarily rejected.