President Kovind unveils Subhas Chandra Bose's portrait; netizens confuse it with actor Prosenjit Chatterjee’s

The Netaji portrait unveiled by President Kovind

A portrait of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose unveiled by President Ram Nath Kovind on January 23 at the Rashtrapati Bhavan to commemorate his 125th birth anniversary left netizens confused.

Many argued if the portrait was of Bengali actor Prosenjit Chatterjee, who had played the character of Netaji in the film ‘Gumnaami’ directed by Srijit Mukherjee. However, some media reports have clarified that it is indeed a portrait of Netaji based on an original picture and not that of the actor.

President Kovind unveils the portrait of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at Rashtrapati Bhavan to commemorate his 125th birth anniversary celebrations. pic.twitter.com/Y3BnylwA8X

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— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) January 23, 2021

Here's how Twitter reacted:

This is unbelievably hilarious. The Portrait that President of India Unveiled, it is is of Actor Prosenjit who played role of Netaji (Look at Eyes). That’s like unveiling Portrait of Ajay Devgan as Bhagat Singh https://t.co/voRxerFmoU

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— Joy (@Joydas) January 25, 2021

Shocked to hear that the President unveiled the portrait of actor Prasenjit Chatterjee, who played #Netaji instead of the real deal. I wish this were a headline from the Onion. I had to look twice to make sure it had actually happened. How utterly embarrassing https://t.co/7IGb9LeUVZ

— barkha dutt (@BDUTT) January 25, 2021

Frankly, I don't think that #Netaji portrait looks like Prasenjeet. I have seen the film. Or maybe am wrong.

In fact , earlier we used to get posters of leaders sold on streets.

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Somehow I found the current portrait looking like those posters.

— Jaideep Bhattacharjee (@jaideepb) January 25, 2021

This image was tweeted by Netaji's son a year back.

Our dear journos @sagarikaghose @sardesairajdeep @rohini_sgh @BDUTT jumped in to make the Rashtapati Bhavan poster a wrong one without validating it.

It takes one msg from the Congress IT cell to get misguided.#LutyensMedia pic.twitter.com/M6XhiP1r2w

— Sonalika kumar (@sonalika_kumar) January 25, 2021