Amid Oscar's, the prestigious Kalaima(ma)mani awards anounced

The Tamil Nadu government today announced the list of personalities who have been selected for the Kalaimamani honor for excellence in the fields of art and literature. The list consists of 70 prominent personalities from various fields of arts. The awardees from cinema comprise of actors Sundar C, Bharath, Vaiyapuri, director-actor Cheran, actresses Asin, Nayanthara, Meera Jasmine and Shobhana. Apart from the screen artistes, composer Harris Jeyaraj, producer and theater owner Abhirami Ramanathan have also been chosen for the honor. Another notable name in the list is Aishwarya Rajinikanth.

FYI: Notable Artists are highlighted

Do they really deserve Kalaimamani?

Here is very few Nayantara's & Asin's Contribution




















It’s really disgusting to see that ‘Kalaimamani’ Award has been conferred to various performers or someone who never really deserves it.

here is the views from the site www.kollywoodtoday.com

#Dizzle on Feb 25th, 2009 at 4:59 pm

Aishwariya rajnikanth ? wat did she do to deserve it ? :S
# Thars on Feb 25th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
true say… is it panjamirthan so that you can give it to every one…wat the F***K did nayantara do in order to achive an award. is it because she shows her ass an her hips. il rather award her for her best proformance in bieng a vesa.
admit bharat, pasubathy, haris, sivamani coz they desrve it for there best performance.cum on ppl give some mariyathey to the award.
# vinod on Feb 25th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
A definite big NO to Nayanthara
# naveen on Feb 25th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
wat the fuck they gave to that thevidiya devipriya?
plz look on to it
http://kollywoodtoday.net/gallery/categories.php?cat_id=560
# raja on Feb 25th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
oh god, what has happened is nothing but murder of talents in tamil cinema. do u think asin and saroja devi madam are equal, or has she acheived any bit what saroja devi madam has achieved. the answer will be a big NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.and that slut nayanthara, meera jasmine etc. they are bracketed with greats like sivamani. this is utterly disgusting. thats the reason u have third rate actors like vijay getting a doctorate or a state award and great talents like vikram are sidelined. this tamil industry is going for worse to worst. only god can save it.
# Yes on Feb 25th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Award ellam kodukarathila ,vangurathu (kasu koduthu).They have money(some in the list undeservered).so they bought it.
# jay on Feb 25th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
கருணாநிதிக்கு இதற்குமட்டும் நேரம் இருக்கும்
# Shalini on Feb 25th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
omg itz unbelieveble…. wot did aishwarya dhanush and devipriya to deserve dis kalaimani award… dis is too nonsens… itz lik a game!!!
# vijay on Feb 25th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
its really an ashame for the person who had decided on the awardees. Among the actors category , ONLY Mr.PASUPATHY AND MR.CHERAN DESERVE THE PRESTIGIOUS AWARD.
Extremely SORRY TO SAY THIS. The prestigious award of KALAIMAMANI HELD BY THE DESERVING ARTISTE, IN THE PAST, By giving the awards to those announced this year, IT CLEARLY SHOWS, THAT , ALL THE WINNERS HAD SERVED SEVERELY TO THE JURIES AND SATISFIED THE JURIES TO THE CORE AND THE DECISION MIGHT HAVE TAKEN DURING THEIR UNCONCIOUS STATE. TO DISCUSS FURTHER U MAY CALL ME ON 99 407 23 222 TO UNDERSATND BETTER
# Tamizhan on Feb 25th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Veterans like SarojaDevi, ‘Drums’ Sivamani etc., should deny to accept such award which is being given to dummies like Aishwarya Rajnikant which no one will accept……. If she is not the daughter of Rajni will they give her this award…..
Atleast the award itself should be honoured….. It should not be offered just for the sake to give it to somebody….. Please leave atleast the real honours to the truely deserving artists……..
# Karunanidhi on Feb 25th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
FLASH NEWS!! AWARDS FOR SALE!!
Please donate 10 lakhs to CM relief fund and/or sleep with a bada politician and you get a K********** award. You can also get good references or be the son/daughter of a big actor/producer/director. Hurry up!! Valid till stock lasts.
# jesse on Feb 26th, 2009 at 2:18 am
half these ppl dnt even deserve the award!!!!!!!!
they should have gave it to TRISHA she had 6 movies in one year (telugu including)
she’s way better than nayntara and asin
whoever came up with the list is dumb
# star on Feb 26th, 2009 at 4:38 am
i don’t think Nayanthara deserves the award…wht did she do last year in the terms of acting..it was only skin show…the only ppl who deserve the awards are Saroja Devi, Sivamani, Pasupathi and Asin.
# lingham on Feb 26th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
harris, cheran, sivamani, saroja devi, n asin truely deserve!
nayantara, a big question mark??? and so on aiswarya!
# Jenny on Feb 26th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Asin,nayantara,devi priya enna panni kilichitalugantu avalukaluku
poi award koduthangalo…..
Both Asin,Nayan,Devi priya Sucks…….
I will say Harris,Drums Sivamani,Saroja Devi,Pasupathi r worth to deserve it…….
# Anand on Feb 26th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
All others except the useless bitch devipriya & dumb aishwarya deserved this award.
# adithya VM on Feb 26th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
seeing the list i forgot for what purpose they r givin this award……anyhow…suki sivam deserves it…saroja devi is given only now???shobana for dance ok….i dunno what did asin n nayanthara do when compared to asin n nayanthara…if sundar C had got it as a director i would have been happy…cheran too as a director is good
# adithya VM on Feb 26th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
sorry when compared to saroja devi and shobana….
# CT on Feb 26th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
Dizzle is right. Aishwariya rajnikanth ? What did she even contribute? Ah..she is in Rajni’s family..ok :( Thats Karuna’s govt. for you…
And its a big NO…for Trisha. Trisha is even unfit to be a heroine itself..its not even a girl…thoo…and DMK always cannot award more to ladies liek this…crazy.
# kk on Feb 26th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Atleast some of those flop actors actresses have acted in some movies and “jollu” karunanithy wants to see those actresses in closure. but y the hell Aishwarya getting it cuz, she is born to rajini and married to that stupid Dhanush? by giving some of these people this award, this award just losing its prestigious.
# youngster on Feb 27th, 2009 at 2:56 am
Instead of giving to Aishwarya Rajnikant Govt would have giving thssi award to the following persons(who made most of the Tamil Nadu’s youngsters happy)
1. Silk Sumitha
2. Disco Shanthi
3. Mumtaz
4. Namitha
# S.PARTHIBAN on Feb 27th, 2009 at 8:49 am
miss sangeetha kapilan and kayalvizhi kapilan (kabilan sisters) really deserve it b’cos they have done so many thing to Bharathanattiyam. they have inspired many young students who wants to learn this traditional dance. they have performed together in many stages and shared stage with many prominent artists. they are such a humble persons, they have made their teacher, parents, bother,family and friends proud. hearty congrats to them and best wishes to get many more like this.
# Raman on Feb 27th, 2009 at 8:50 am
What the hell the Nayanthara, Ishwarya, Devipriya doing here..
Is this Kalaimamani Award or KalaiMamaMani Award…
# APARRNA on Feb 27th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
i like to say…..dat der r certain actors who obviously dont deserve dis……..@ d same time…….its wonderful in givin dis award to SUKISIVAM,,,,,,,,but i really feel sad for dat too……..bcoz it is a insult for him to b compared wit certain…ppl….who doesn’t deserve dis…
# diraj on Feb 27th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
why the award was given to nayanthara, she cant even act well,
only showing boobs, n her ass, Maybe she have offered some blow job and fuck for the journalist. Go the hell
Me: As of me, don't even think of this as an award, Nothing much i can do for 2009 Kalaimamani Awards, all praise goes to the selection committee & its supportive bodies

Oscar, Oscar, Oscar............What is it actually?

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)[1] to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers. The formal ceremony at which the awards are presented is one of the most prominent film award ceremonies in the world.

The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held on Thursday, May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor outstanding film achievements of 1927 and 1928.

The 81st Academy Awards honoring the best in film for 2008 was held on Sunday, February 22, 2009 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood with actor Hugh Jackman hosting the ceremony for the first time. Since 2002, the awards have been broadcast from the Kodak Theatre.

Oscar statuette
The official name of the Oscar statuette is the Academy Award of Merit. Made of gold-plated britannium on a black metal base, it is 13.5 in (34 cm) tall, weighs 8.5 lb (3.85 kg) and depicts a knight rendered in Art Deco style holding a crusader's sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes. The five spokes each represent the original branches of the Academy: Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers, and Technicians.

Model & Creator of Oscar
Designer: Art Director-Cedric Gibbons
Model: Mexican Film Director-Emilio "El Indio" Fernández(Naked Pose)
Sculptor: George Stanley
Cast: Sachin Smith(92.5% Tin and 7.5% Copper and then Gold-Plated it)
Manufacturer: R.S. Owens & Company, Chicago, Illinois

Oscar Contribution in World War II: In support of the American effort in World War II, the statuettes were made of plaster and were traded in for gold ones after the war had ended.

Naming
The root of the name Oscar is contested.
1) One biography of Bette Davis claims that she named the Oscar after her first husband, band leader Harmon Oscar Nelson;[10] one of the earliest mentions in print of the term Oscar dates back to a TIME Magazine article about the 1934 6th Academy Awards
2) Another claimed origin is that of the Academy's Executive Secretary, Margaret Herrick[13], who first saw the award in 1931 and made reference to the statuette reminding her of her Uncle Oscar.

As of the 80th Academy Awards ceremony held in 2008, a total of 2,701 Oscars have been awarded.[15] A total of 293 actors have won Oscars in competitive acting categories or been awarded Honorary or Juvenile Awards.

Ownership of Oscar statuettes
Since 1950, the statuettes have been legally encumbered by the requirement that neither winners nor their heirs may sell the statuettes without first offering to sell them back to the Academy for US$1. If a winner refuses to agree to this stipulation, then the Academy keeps the statuette. Academy Awards not protected by this agreement have been sold in public auctions and private deals for six-figure sums (Levy 2003).[citation needed]

This rule is highly controversial, since while the Oscar is under the ownership of the recipient, it is essentially not on the open market.[16] The case of Michael Todd's grandson trying to sell Todd's Oscar statuette illustrates that there are many who do not agree with this idea. When Todd's grandson attempted to sell Todd's Oscar statuette to a movie prop collector, the Academy won the legal battle by getting a permanent injunction. Although some Oscar sales transactions have been successful, the buyers have subsequently returned the statuettes to the Academy, which keeps them in its treasury.

Voters
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), a professional honorary organization, maintains a voting membership, Actors constitute the largest voting bloc, numbering 1,311 members (22 percent) of the Academy's composition. Votes have been certified by the auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (and its predecessor Price Waterhouse) for the past 73 annual awards ceremonies.

New membership proposals are considered annually. The Academy does not publicly disclose its membership. While the membership had been growing, stricter policies have kept its size steady

Rules
Today, according to Rules 2 and 3 of the official Academy Awards Rules, a film must open in the previous calendar year, from midnight at the start of January 1 to midnight at the end of December 31, in Los Angeles County, California, to qualify.[20] Rule 2 states that a film must be "feature-length", defined as a minimum of 40 minutes, except for short subject awards and it must exist either on a 35 mm or 70 mm film print or in 24 frame/s or 48 frame/s progressive scan digital cinema format with native resolution not less than 1280x720.

The members of the various branches nominate those in their respective fields while all members may submit nominees for Best Picture. The winners are then determined by a second round of voting in which all members are then allowed to vote in most categories, including Best Picture.

Ceremony
The major awards are presented at a live televised ceremony, most commonly in February or March following the relevant calendar year, and six weeks after the announcement of the nominees. It is the culmination of the film awards season, which usually begins during November or December of the previous year. This is an elaborate extravaganza, with the invited guests walking up the red carpet in the creations of the most prominent fashion designers of the day. Black tie dress is the most common outfit for men, although fashion may dictate not wearing a bow-tie, and musical performers sometimes do not adhere to this.

The Awards show was first televised on NBC in 1953

Venues
*The 1st Academy Awards were presented at a banquet dinner at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, USA
*The 81st Academy Awards were presented at The Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA

The Winners of the 81st Academy Awards(I mean Oscar Winners are)

Best picture: Slumdog Millionaire
Best director: Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
Best actor: Sean Penn - Milk
Best actress: Kate Winslet - The Reader
Best supporting actor: Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Best supporting actress: Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best original screenplay: Milk
Best adapted screenplay: Slumdog Millionaire
Best animated feature film: Wall-E
Best animated short film: La Maison en Petits Cubes
Best foreign language film: Departures - Japan
Best documentary feature: Man on Wire
Best documentary short subject: Smile Pinki
Art direction: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Costume design: The Duchess
Make-up: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Cinematography: Slumdog Millionaire
Best live action short film: Spielzeugland (Toyland)
Visual effects: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Sound editing: The Dark Knight
Sound mixing: Slumdog Millionaire
Film editing: Slumdog Millionaire
Best original score: Slumdog Millionaire
Best original song: Jai Ho - Slumdog Millionaire

Most Oscar winners

Most nominated films: Titanic and All About Eve, with 14, and Lord of The Rings, Gone With The Wind, From Here to Eternity, Mary Poppins, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Chicago, and Forrest Gump all with 13.
Most awarded Actor: Jack Nicholson with three statues, two for Best Actor, and one for Supporting.

Only Actor to win for a one-word role: Patty Duke, playing the blind and deaf Helen Keller uttered "Water" to take home the Best Supporting Actress Award at 16 in 1963. Of course, her non speaking performance was more powerful than her competitions speaking parts.
Who got the biggest applause inside the auditorium? Shirley Temple got the longest applause, Gregory Peck the loudest.
TIES
In 1969 there was a tie for Best Actress, the two winning ladies were Barbra Streisand for "Funny Girl" (1968) and Katharine Hepburn for The Lion in Winter (1968).
1932 Wallace Beery for his work in The Champ (1931) and Fredric March for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) both won Best Actor Awards.

Double Takes:
In 1992 Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon were both nominated for Best Actress for their work in the same movie: Thelma & Louise (1991, nither won
Also in 1936 Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, And Franchot Tone were all Nominated for Best Actor for their work in the same movie, Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and none of them won.
The Only Silent Film to Win Best Picture:
Wings (1927–1928)

Only X-Rated Film to Win Best Picture:
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Only Animated Film Nominated for Best Picture:
Beauty and the Beast (1991)

Salute to AR Rahman, Resul Pookutty & Danny Boyle(Slumdog Millionaire)

A.R. Rahman - Local Hero

Allah Rakkha Rahman (Tamil: ஏ.ஆர்.ரகுமான்) (born January 6, 1967 as A. S. Dileep Kumar in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India) is an Academy Award winning Indian film composer, record producer and musician. His work has garnered considerable acclaim and a large global fan base since his film scoring career began in the early 1990s. Since then, he won several prizes, including two Academy Awards, four National Film Awards as well as a British Academy Award and the Golden Globe award.

Working in several of India's various film industries, international cinema and theatre, by 2003, Rahman, in a career spanning over a decade, has sold more than 100 million records of his film scores and soundtracks worldwide,and sold over 200 million cassettes making him one of the world's all-time top selling recording artists.

His acclaimed music compositions have led to references to him as the "Mozart of Madras" and several Tamil commentators have given him the title Isai Puyal (Tamil: இசைப் புயல்; English: Music Storm).

A. R. Rahman was born to a Tamil Hindu family. His father R. K. Shekhar was a composer and conductor for Malayalam-language films of Keralite cinema. His father died when Rahman was 9 years old, and his family rented out musical equipment as a source of income. He converted to Islam from Hinduism in 1989 along with his family after a personal experience with a Sufism teacher.

During these early years, Rahman served as a keyboard player and an arranger in bands such as "Roots" with childhood friend and percussionist Sivamani, John Anthony, JoJo and Raja.Rahman is the founder of the Chennai-based rock group, "Nemesis Avenue".He played the keyboard and piano, the synthesizer, the harmonium and the guitar. His curiosity in the synthesizer in particular increased because, he says, it was the “ideal combination of music and technology". He began early training in music under Master Dhanraj. At the age of 11, he joined, as a keyboardist, the troupe of Ilaiyaraaja, one of many composers to whom musical instruments belonging to Rahman's father were rented. Rahman later played in the orchestra of M. S. Viswanathan and Ramesh Naidu, accompanied Zakir Hussain, Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan and L. Shankar on world tours and obtained a scholarship to the Trinity College of Music, where he graduated with a degree in Western classical music.

Music style and impact

Skilled in Carnatic music,Western classical, Hindustani music and the Qawwali style of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Rahman has been noted to write film songs that amalgamate elements of these music systems and other genres, layering instruments from differing music idioms in an improvisatory manner. Symphonic orchestral themes have accompanied his scores, where he has employed leitmotif. In the 1980s, Rahman recorded and played arrangements on mono, synonymous with the era of predecessors such as K. V. Mahadevan and Vishwanathan–Ramamoorthy, but later his methodology changed. Rahman worked and experimented on fusing traditional instruments with new electronic sounds and technology.


His first soundtrack Roja was listed in TIME's "Top 10 Movie Soundtracks of All Time" in 2005. Film critic Richard Corliss felt the "astonishing debut work parades Rahman's gift for alchemizing outside influences until they are totally Tamil, totally Rahman." Rahman's initial global reach is attributed to the South Asian diaspora. Described as one of the most innovative composers to ever work in the industry, his unique style and immense success transformed film music in the 1990s prompting several film producers to take film music more seriously.

The director Baz Luhrmann notes

"I had come to the music of A. R. Rahman through the emotional and haunting score of Bombay and the wit and celebration of Lagaan. But the more of AR's music I encountered the more I was to be amazed at the sheer diversity of styles: from swinging brass bands to triumphant anthems; from joyous pop to West-End musicals. Whatever the style, A. R. Rahman's music always possesses a profound sense of humanity and spirit, qualities that inspire me the most.


Danny Boyle - Britain Hero

Danny Boyle (born 20 October 1956) is an Academy Award-winning English director and film producer, best known for his work on films such as Trainspotting, Sunshine, 28 Days Later. In 2009 Boyle gained an Academy Award for Best Director for Slumdog Millionaire.

Boyle was born in Radcliffe (historically a part of Lancashire) into a working-class Irish Catholic family. His mother was from Ballinasloe, County Galway, and his father was born in England to an Irish family of O'Dwyers. His great uncle Sir Michael O'Dwyer led the charge during the Amritsar Massacre.[1] For a while, Boyle seriously contemplated entering the priesthood and attended religious school as a teenager.He was discouraged by a priest from joining the clergy; later in his life Boyle stated, "I don't know if he was trying to save me or the priesthood." However, he later wrote a treatise Spiritual Glory of British Empire:Guiding souls in India about the activities of christian missionaries in British India.[citation needed]

Instead, he studied at Thornleigh Salesian College in Bolton, and at the University of Wales, Bangor. While at university, Boyle dated the actress Frances Barber.


Resul Pookutty - Real Hero



Resul Pookutty (Malayalam: റെസൂൽ പൂക്കുട്ടി ) (born 1971) is an Academy Award and BAFTA Award winning Indian film sound designer and mixer. Pookutty is from Vilakkupara, Kollam in Kerala. He is the first Indian and only Asian to win the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing.
He was the youngest of eight children born to an impoverished family. His father was a private bus conductor, and he had to walk 6 km to the nearest school and studied in the light of the kerosene lamp as their village had no electricity

Pookutty moved to Mumbai after his graduation. He termed it as "a natural immigration as a graduate of the institute." Pookutty made his debut in sound design with the 1997 film Private Detective: Two Plus Two Plus One. He got his big break with the critically acclaimed 2005 film Black, directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali
In an interview, he named Gandhi, My Father as one of his "most emotional(ly) troubled film". He said "I got emotional. I wept. I was emotionally troubled while mixing the film. There is lot of me in the film.

He described working with Danny Boyle, whom he describes as one of his favourite directors for Slumdog Millionaire as a "completely new experience".He shot on many kinds of film cameras, more than fifty percent in digital camera

He designed sound for the 2008 blockbuster Ghajini. His first major international project Slumdog Millionaire won him an Academy award

His Academy award acceptance speech:

"This is unbelievable. We can't believe this. Ladies and gentlemen... sorry... I share the stage with two magicians, you know, who created the very ordinary sounds of Bombay, the cacophony of Bombay, into a soul-stirring, artful resonance called Slumdog Millionaire. I come from a country and a civilization that given the universal word. That word is preceded by silence, followed by more silence. That word is 'Om.' So I dedicate this award to my country. Thank you, Academy, this is not just a sound award, this is history being handed over to me. My sincere and deepest gratitude to my teachers, Danny Boyle [Images], Christian Colson, Paul Ritchie, Pravesh... and everybody who has contributed to this film, Glenn Freemantle and all the sound mixers. I dedicate this to you guys. Thank you, Academy. Thank you very much.

His Films

Slumdog Millionaire (January 23, 2009) (Released)
Acid Factory (2009) (Under Production)
Raat Gayi Baat Gayi (2009) (Under Production)
Ghajini (December 24, 2008) (Released)
Woodstock Villa (May 30, 2008) (Released)
Mithya (February 8, 2008) (Released)
Dus Kahaniyaan (December 7, 2007) (Released)
Saawariya (November 9, 2007) (Released)
Gandhi My Father (August 3, 2007) (Released)
Mixed Doubles (February 10, 2006) (Released)
Matrubhoomi (July 8, 2005) (Released)
Musafir (December 10, 2004) (Released)
Kyun! Ho Gaya Na (August 13, 2004) (Released)
Agni Varsha (August 30, 2002) (Released)
Snip! (2000) (Released)

Dheeran Chinnamalai - Freedom Fighter - Our Local Hero

Dheeran Chinnamalai (Tamil: தீரன் சின்னமலை) Original Name:Theerthagiri Gounder (April 17, 1756 – July 31, 1805) was a famous Palayakkarar and independence fighter from Tamil Nadu.

He was born in Melapalayam, Erode Tamilnadu, India. He formed a 1,000-strong army in support of Tipu Sultan, and was instrumental in victories at Chitheswaram, Mazahavalli and Srirangapatna.

He was one of the main leaders in the Polygar Wars, and commanded a vast army, notably during the Second Polygar War that took place in 1801-1802.

After Tipu's death, Chinnamalai settled down at Odanilai and constructed a fort there to continue his struggle against the British, whom he defeated in battles at Cauvery in 1801, Odanilai in 1802 and Arachalur in 1804. Later, Chinnamalai left his fort to avoid cannon attack and engaged in guerrilla warfare while he was stationed at Karumalai in the Palani region.

He was betrayed by his cook and captured by the British, who hanged him at Sankari Fort on July 31 or August 2, 1805.

My Most Loved Indian Freedom Fighter ever............

Subhas Chandra Bose

Born: January 23, 1897
Died: August 18, 1945
Achievements: Passed Indian Civil Services Exam; elected Congress President in 1938 and 1939; formed a new party All India Forward block; organized Azad Hind Fauj to overthrow British Empire from India.

Subhas Chandra Bose, affectionately called as Netaji, was one of the most prominent leaders of Indian freedom struggle. Though Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru have garnered much of the credit for successful culmination of Indian freedom struggle, the contribution of Subash Chandra Bose is no less. He has been denied his rightful place in the annals of Indian history. He founded Indian National Army (Azad Hind Fauj) to overthrow British Empire from India and came to acquire legendary status among Indian masses.

Subhas Chandra Bose was born on January 23, 1897 in Cuttack, Orissa. His father Janaki Nath Bose was a famous lawyer and his mother Prabhavati Devi was a pious and religious lady. Subhas Chandra Bose was the ninth child among fourteen siblings. Subhas Chandra Bose was a brilliant student right from the childhood. He topped the matriculation examination of Calcutta province and graduated with a First Class in Philosophy from the Scottish Churches College in Calcutta. He was strongly influenced by Swami Vivekananda's teachings and was known for his patriotic zeal as a student. To fulfill his parents wishes he went to England in 1919 to compete for Indian Civil Services. In England he appeared for the Indian Civil Service competitive examination in 1920, and came out fourth in order of merit. However, Subhas Chandra Bose was deeply disturbed by the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre, and left his Civil Services apprenticeship midway to return to India in 1921





After returning to India Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose came under the influence of Mahatma Gandhi and joined the Indian National Congress. On Gandhiji's instructions, he started working under Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das, whom he later acknowledged his political guru. Soon he showed his leadership mettle and gained his way up in the Congress' hierarchy. In 1928 the Motilal Nehru Committee appointed by the Congress declared in favor of Domination Status, but Subhas Chandra Bose along with Jawaharlal Nehru opposed it, and both asserted that they would be satisfied with nothing short of complete independence for India. Subhas also announced the formation of the Independence League. Subhas Chandra Bose was jailed during Civil Disobedience movement in 1930. He was released in 1931 after Gandhi-Irwin pact was signed. He protested against the Gandhi-Irwin pact and opposed the suspension of Civil Disobedience movement specially when Bhagat Singh and his associates were hanged.

Subash Chandra Bose was soon arrested again under the infamous Bengal Regulation. After an year he was released on medical grounds and was banished from India to Europe. He took steps to establish centers in different European capitals with a view to promoting politico-cultural contacts between India and Europe. Defying the ban on his entry to India, Subash Chandra Bose returned to India and was again arrested and jailed for a year. After the General Elections of 1937, Congress came to power in seven states and Subash Chandra Bose was released. Shortly afterward he was elected President of the Haripura Congress Session in 1938. During his term as Congress President, he talked of planning in concrete terms, and set up a National planning Committee in October that year. At the end of his first term, the presidential election to the Tripuri Congress session took place early 1939. Subhas Chandra Bose was re-elected, defeating Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya who had been backed by Mahatma Gandhi and the Congress Working Committee. Clouds of World War II were on the horizon and he brought a resolution to give the British six months to hand India over to the Indians, failing which there would be a revolt. There was much opposition to his rigid stand, and he resigned from the post of president and formed a progressive group known as the Forward Block.


Subhas Chandra Bose now started a Subhas Chandra Bose mass movement against utilizing Indian resources and men for the great war. There was a tremendous response to his call and he was put under house arrest in Calcutta. In January 1941, Subhas Chandra Bose disappeared from his home in Calcutta and reached Germany via Afghanistan. Working on the maxim that "an enemy's enemy is a friend", he sought cooperation of Germany and Japan against British Empire. In January 1942, he began his regular broadcasts from Radio Berlin, which aroused tremendous enthusiasm in India. In July 1943, he arrived in Singapore from Germany. In Singapore he took over the reins of the Indian Independence Movement in East Asia from Rash Behari Bose and organized the Azad Hind Fauj (Indian National Army) comprising mainly of Indian prisoners of war. He was hailed as Netaji by the Army as well as by the Indian civilian population in East Asia. Azad Hind Fauj proceeded towards India to liberate it from British rule. En route it liberated Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The I.N.A. Head quarters was shifted to Rangoon in January 1944. Azad Hind Fauj crossed the Burma Border, and stood on Indian soil on March 18 ,1944.

However, defeat of Japan and Germany in the Second World War forced INA to retreat and it could not achieve its objective. Subhas Chandra Bose was reportedly killed in an air crash over Taipei, Taiwan (Formosa) on August 18, 1945. Though it is widely believed that he was still alive after the air crash not much information could be found about him.

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