Bose family members slam 'Gumnaami' maker, Srijit Mukherjee

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A fresh controversy has erupted over director Srijit Mukherji's latest flick with 32 members of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's family claiming that the filmmaker has altered the movie's name from 'Gumnami Baba' to 'Gumnaami' to get the Censor Board's clearance.

The upcoming film has already raked up controversies for delving into theories over Bose's 'disappearance'.

The director, who had on Sunday screened the film's trailer at the office of All India Forward Bloc - the party founded by Bose - termed the charges levelled by some of the descendants of the freedom fighter as "untrue".

The film, which got the CBFC clearance in the last week of August, will hit the screens on October 2.

A statement, signed by Netaji's niece Chitra Ghosh, his nephew Dwarka Bose and 30 other members of the Bose family, said on Monday, "For the past year, ever since Srijit Mukherji announced the film 'Gumnami Baba', he had said it is based on the book 'Conundrum' by Chandrachur Ghosh and Anuj Dhar and (he) had appeared with the authors (at events).

"Now he (Srijit Mukherji) has suddenly changed his stance to get past the Censor Board and says the film is based on the Justice Mukherjee Commission report. He has also changed the name of the film."
"And the decision to base the screenplay on the Mukherjee Commision report and not Conundrum, was made before the film was shot, "months before this controversy."
The statement, under the title 'Majority members of Bose family' demanded the film should not be screened on the scheduled date and said "It is imperative the AIFB immediately dissociate themselves from this and actively oppose the screening which is nothing but denigrating Netaji."