Jhansi Ki Rani Laxmibai

Overview

When the Raja of Jhansi dies, the British place harsh conditions before letting the Raja's son, Gangadhar, take over the throne. Jhansi's Rajguru plans ahead by getting a young girl, Manu, from a neighbouring kingdom to marry Gangadhar, despite their age difference. Manu is anointed the Rani of Jhansi and her name is changed to Laxmibai (Kashish). She soon gets pregnant but the newborn child dies a few months later. Bereft, Gangadhar's health begins to fail. With no hope of a natural heir to the kingdom, Gangadhar and Laxmibai adopt a young boy, Diwakar. When Gangadhar dies, Laxmibai attempts to have Diwakar anointed the Raja. However, the British object and soon declare war on Jhansi. How Laxmibai joins forces with Tatya Tope and fights the British to death iforms the rest of the film.

Directed by Rajesh Mittal

Top cast

Tom Alter

Arav Chowdhary

Mangal Panday

Sadashiv Amrapurkar

Sulabha Deshpande

Milind Gunaji

Dinesh Hingoo

Mohan Joshi

G

Goga Kapoor

Mushtaq Khan

Shweta Menon

Anil Nagrath

Surendra Pal

N

Nirmal Pandey

R

Ramesh Pandey

R

Ravi Patwardhan

R

Rishabh Raj

Nana Sahib Peshwa

Tej Sapru

V

Vandana Sen

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