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The Forgotten Army - Azaadi ke liye (2020)
Sappy, but well-made!
Some historical inaccuracies--like claiming that the Rani Jhansi regiment was the "First Female Combat Unit in the World"(the Russian Women's Battalions of Death would like a word, just to name one), and they omit any mention of the INA's Communist Sympathies, which heavily coloured its character throughout the conflict, but the actual series is extremely well-done and very emotionally moving. Other than the two I named, there aren't any other really glaring or major inaccuracies, and the material side of things--uniforms, equipment, etc.--is well done. The action scenes are authentic and don't feel like usual Hollywood fare(or Bollywood, for that matter), with firefights being relatively short and frenetic instead of long protracted affairs, and they don't make their enemies--the Japanese or later the British--incompetents or morons, which makes their victories(and even their defeats) much more powerful and meaningful. They seem to be slightly obsessed with removing extras' limbs whenever an explosive is even remotely involved, which is the sort of thing that borders on becoming distracting once you notice it, but that's more an aside than a complaint. Perhaps most importantly as a history buff who doesn't watch these for the romances that everyone seems to be hell-bent on shoehorning in, the one explicit romance in the story--Sodhi and Maya--isn't the main focus of the series and is mostly just an additional B-plot, while the main focus is on the INA's founding and struggle for independence, which I very much appreciate.
All in all, a solid 9/10.