Cuttack, Jan. 12: A 25-minute documentary on freedom fighters of Subhas Chandra Bose's Indian National Army (INA) will give visitors at the Netaji Birthplace Museum a firsthand account of their lives and struggles for India's independence.

The documentary will be screened on Bose's birth anniversary on January 23. Writer Sai Prasad Mohapatra has come up with the documentary and recently donated the short film to the Netaji Birthplace Museum Trust.

Official sources said the documentary had been shot on the lives, accounts, experiences and struggles of three INA fighters from Odisha - Khali Pradhan, Uchab Jena of Nayagarh and Kapil Charan Ray of Khurda.

"I have been keen to learn about Netaji since childhood and it was only during my first visit to the museum that I was inspired to make the documentary on the INA fighters from Odisha as not much work has been done on this," said Mohapatra. He added that last year the museum trust released an album containing the names and addresses of nearly 337 freedom fighters from Odisha who had joined the INA or the Azad Hind Fauj.

The booklet also contains photographs, insignia and other basic information about the provisional government of the Azad Hind that Bose set up in October 1943.

The booklet is a complete guide about the INA, provisional government and its national bank.

"The film, dubbed in English and Hindi, will be screen-ed on special occasions for visitors. It will be a unique experience for visitors as they will get to know about the struggles of the state's INA fighters," said museum curator J.P. Das.