TV-MASeason 1
Synopsis
The Forgotten Army (2020), Season 1 — watch online on iFILM. Five episodes, Amazon Prime Video, drawn from the real story of the Azad Hind Fauj: Indian soldiers who marched nearly four thousand kilometres from Singapore through Burma under Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
The season runs two timelines in parallel. In 1999, an elderly Sodhi returns to Singapore and his family slowly pulls his long silence apart. During the war, young Sodhi and thousands of fellow soldiers surrender to Japan after the fall of Singapore — then Netaji arrives with a choice. A women's regiment forms; Maya, an aspiring photographer, enlists alongside Rasammah. By the fifth episode the column is moving through Burma under RAF bombardment, the wounded retreating, the goal still impossibly far.
The British colonial establishment called these men and women traitors. This series sits with them long enough that you understand why they disagreed. Stream The Forgotten Army Season 1 online on iFILM.
5 episodes
S1·E1Shonan
An introverted old man (Old Sodhi) has come to visit his sister (Urmila) and her family, Subhash (Urmila’s son) and Amar (Subhash’s son) in Singapore. In an intervention by his older sister, Old Sodhi is catapulted into his past, the war of ’42, the past he was running away from. He narrates the controversial outcome of the Battle of Singapore and fate of the soldiers of the British Indian Army.
S1·E2POW
After surrendering, the fate of the soldiers depended on the mercy of the Japanese Army. The Indian soldiers transformed when Netaji gave the call to form the Indian National Army. Maya, an aspiring photographer, is driven to join this freedom army. Sodhi and Arshad realise that India is their motherland and that they have to fight to free her from British raj.
S1·E3Chalo Dilli
Maya and Rasammah enroll in the women’s regiment. Rajan and many other civilians also enroll in the INA. Rigorous training sessions begin for all the recruits. In 1996, Amar reaches Burma with Old Sodhi and they meet Rani (Amar’s Burmese friend). Circumstances lead to Old Sodhi shooting a Burmese soldier which paves way for a chain reaction of dangerous events.
S1·E4Harakiri
Maya and Sodhi along with the INA soldiers do not give hope even after their trains are bombed by planes. Old Sodhi finds himself in Rangoon that leads to an array of past events - the struggles of the Indian soldiers and the rains that destroyed everything. Under such a situation, the Japanese were ordered to retreat.
S1·E5Maya
There is an attack on the advanced base camp by the British Air Force but that doesn't deter the soldiers from marching ahead to stop the British from advancing. Sodhi orders all the wounded to retreat along with the Rani Jhansi Regiment. Old Sodhi injures his leg in the jungle and is unable to walk any further. Amar leaves with Rani to get help but are stopped on the tracks by a loud blast.
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