Overview

• Mamata Banerjee paid homage on Bose’s 117th martyrdom day and decried the film’s renaming of him as “Khudiram Singh” and relocation of his origins to Punjab.
• An FIR filed in June at Bidhannagar South police station accuses Kesari Chapter 2 producers of misrepresenting Bengal’s freedom fighters and remains under investigation.
• West Bengal authorities unveiled a statue in Mahabani, renovated the library and auditorium, revitalized Khudiram Park and named a Kolkata Metro station after the teenage revolutionary.
• Bihar’s District Magistrate Subrata Sen, SSP Sushil Kumar and other officials led tributes at Muzaffarpur Central Jail, the site where Bose was hanged in 1908.
• This year’s events underscored ongoing debates over media portrayals of nationalist icons and reinforced Bose’s enduring legacy in India’s independence narrative.