The premier of Shyam Benegal's film "Bose, The Forgotten Hero", to be held here Thursday and which the producers claimed would achieve a Guinness record for attendance, failed to take place.

Sahara One Motion Pictures, the producers of the film, had claimed that their mega premiere show on the sprawling Eastern Command Ground here would create a world record for headcount.

"We have deferred the premiere. We will hold it sometime later this month. We could not get the (Army) ground," a spokesman of Sahara India told here.

Sahara sources hinted that the hope of achieving an entry into the Guinness Book of Records would remain unachieved.

The release of the film, which was completed long back, has been deferred time and again owing to one reason or the other, including legal impediments.

Earlier, five deponents to the Mukherjee Commission, probing the mystery surrounding Netaji's whereabouts after the 1945 Taihoku aircrash in Japan, had threatened to move court against the filmmakers for showing the national hero as a "married" man.

The deponents, all Netaji researchers, also wrote to Censor Board of Film Certification chairperson Sharmila Tagore and secretaries of the union home and information and broadcasting ministries against the Shyam Benegal film which allegedly has scenes of a "married" Netaji.

Former Trinamool Congress MP Krishna Bose, widow of Netaji's nephew Sisir Bose, told recently that the film had brought out Bose, the man, very well.

"Bose The Forgotten Hero" has been made with a budget of Rs.220 million. It captures the remarkable journey of Bose from 1941 to 1945 in the backdrop of the Second World War and the exploits of Indian National Army founded by him to free India from the yoke of British rule.