Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

Re:Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR” by bergenty on Saturday September 10, 2022 @05:35PM (#32794755)

Bose “aligned” with the Nazis so he could free the Indian POWs captured by the Japanese which he then used to build the Indian national army. Also, the Nazis were fighting the British who in India were enemy number one. He wasn’t antisemitic or racist so his alignment is pretty irrelevant.

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Re:Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR” by dagmx on Saturday September 10, 2022 @08:40PM (#32795813)

This is a provably false retcon of history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhas_Chandra_Bose?wprov=sfti...

He went to Germany to escape the British after a failed insurrection and hoped to ally with the Nazi’s to lead an invasion into India to free it. The Japanese prisoners of war

You’re conflating his later efforts in Japan with his initial allyship with the Nazi party.

This is a very common smudging of history that happens in our Indian history books (the CBSE approved books in particular do this) to make things seem more justified.

> "I swear by God this holy oath that I will obey the leader of the German race and state, Adolf Hitler, as the commander of the German armed forces in the fight for India, whose leader is Subhas Chandra Bose".

This is alignment in every way, so I’m not sure why you’d put that in quotes.

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