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Film raises doubts over Netaji’s death

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http://www.orkut.com/CommMsgs?tid=2584073541896009889&cmm=41744409&hl=en-GB N Ravikumar 18/2/2008 CHENNAI, Feb. 17: A Tamil film on Netaji's close associate, Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar, to be released within a few weeks, is likely to raise more questions on Subash Chandra Bose's death, as it contains Thevar's assertions that he had met Bose in 1956, many years after the plane crash, in which Bose is said to have died. Muthuramalinga Thevar, who is now worshipped as a deity, by Thevars, a backward community in southern districts of Tamil Nadu, was a close associate of Bose and one of the five founding members of the Forward Bloc. The film's director Mr MP Abraham Lincoln, told The Statesman** that Thevar, in several public meetings he addressed in 1956, had asserted he was still maintaining contact with Bose and had met him at a village near the Himalayas. Those speeches had been recorded by Thevar's assistant AR Perumal, in his book, and was still