India, Oct. 24 -- The makers of Fauzi, Prabhas' upcoming action thriller, celebrated the actor's 47th birthday on Friday, by dropping the first video asset from the film. The teaser, dubbed File No 25 by the film's marketing team, sees Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose meeting German dictator Adolf Hitler during the height of World War II, and strangely enough, spending a good amount of time praising Prabhas' character. While fans of the actor were all for the introduction, many on the internet found it cringeworthy and even disrespectful to Netaji's legacy.

Fauzi is a period action thriller set in the 1930s and 40s, with Prabhas playing an Indian spy helping the Indian National Army in the freedom struggle. The teaser shows Bose brag about Pr...