KOLKATA: A kin of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose has cast fresh light into one of the most riveting episodes in India's pre Independent history, recounting details of the 'Great Escape' that has all the ingredients to be turned into a gripping political thriller for a global audience. While the 1963 American epic war adventure film 'The Great Escape' starring Steve McQueen, James Garner and Richard Attenborough depicts a heavily fictionalized version of the mass escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from German POW camp Stalag Luft III in World War II , the account by Netaji's grand nephew Abhijit Ray relates to Bose's daring escape from a house in Kolkata's Elgin Road that was under surveillance. Incidentally, this also took place with World War II raging in the backdrop.

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