About Manikarnika movie
Kangana Ranaut starrer ‘Manikarnika: The Queen Of Jhansi’ has done well in its first week collection at the Box Office and the film is holding its own in its third week. Directed by Kangana and Radha Krishna Jagarlamudi (Krish), the film opened to positive reviews and was liked by the audience, while actor Kangana was praised for her performance.
The film tells the story of the great Indian freedom fighter Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi. Kangana Ranaut plays the heroine in the movie. This contemporary film is challenging Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s ‘Thackeray’ rule at the box office. The film released on January 25, a day before Republic
Movie details
Manikarnika Queen of Jhansi is a Bollywood biopic based on the life of Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi, who fought against the British East India Company, during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
The film stars Kangana Ranaut, Jisshu Sengupta, Atul Kulkarni, Sonu Sood. etc., and executive functions. The film is directed by Radha Krishna Jagarlamudi and Kangana Ranaut and produced by Zee Studios, Kamal Jain and Nishant Pitti under the banner Kairos Kontent Studios Pvt.Ltd.
Full story
The courage and bravery of ‘Chhabili’ Manikarnika’ (Kangana Ranaut) is established right from the very beginning where we see her facing off against a fierce tiger (poor VFX is laughable here). He was an avid horseman and fencer and quickly attracted the attention of Kulbhushan Kharbanda. She is eager to get married to Maharaja Gangadhar Rao Newalkar of Jhansi (Jisshu Sengupta). Manikarnika soon became Rani Laxmibai.
Soon she gave birth to a son named Damodar Rao. Unfortunately, the child did not last long, leaving Rani Laxmibai and the entire kingdom in mourning. When the East India Company proposed the “doctrine of extinction”, the king and queen adopted a son and named him after their dead son. However, Gangadhar Rao falls ill and Rani Lakshmibai assumes the authority of Jhansi and proclaims, “Lakshmi vidwa hui hai, uski Jhansi abhi bhi suhagan hain.”
The rest of the film revolves around Rani Laxmibai’s refusal to hand over Jhansi to the British Raj. Kiran Deohans and Gnana Shekar VS handle the camera for Manikarnika Queen of Jhans
About Manikarnika
In many ways, Manikarnika, popularly known as Rani Laxmibai, was a hero who did not want to kill, who happened to be in the wrong place at the right time.
Born in Varanasi to a Maharashtrian Brahman family from Moropant Tambe, in November 1835 (by most accounts), Manikarnika was the first name of Laxmibai, who took the last name, on her marriage to the Maharaja of Jhansi. His father was a judge and adviser to the Peshwa of Bithur, so his childhood was spent in the palace.
But when he was a child he was actually Manikarnika or Manu, who not only learned to read and write, including the Vedas and Puranas, but also to ride horses and swords.
Manu was a good rider and known to be a good judge of horses. Legend has it that Manu’s friends included Nana sahib, the adopted son of the Peshwas and Tatya Tope, though both were years older than him as far as their birth years are concerned.
In 1842 she married the Maharaja of Jhansi, Gangadhar Rao Newalkar, whose first wife had died before giving birth and who was looking for an heir to succeed him to the throne. As a result, Manikarnika became Laxmibai, Rani of Jhansi, perhaps due to the usual name changes between Indian kings and emperors.
It is said that he was married in 1851 but he died in just three months. The couple eventually had a son, Damodar Rao, from the Gangadhar Rao family. After the Maharaja died of illness in November 1853, the British East India Company under Governor General Lord Dalhousie imposed a doctrine of abdication and refused to accept Damodar Rao’s claim to the throne.
The Doctrine of Forfeiture is one of the most important achievements of Lord Dalhousie in India, according to the doctrine, any state or territory under the influence of the East India Company will immediately enter if and the ruler dies without an heir.
It was also one of the reasons for the destruction of 1857 as it caused confusion among local authorities, whose reasons for fighting the British were different from those of the Sepoys. The Rani’s appeal to the British government, against the Doctrine of Lapse, was unsuccessful, but she was granted a pension and allowed to remain in her City Palace residence.
In 1857, the sepoys of Jhansi also destroyed and the British residents of Jhansi, about 60 of them including women and children, were killed by them. According to many histories, Laxmibai, who lived outside her palace without administrative authority, was unaware that she was involved in the murder.
The British felt the need to punish the killing of Europeans in Jhansi and elsewhere as they felt it was necessary globally to show their superiority and control over the Indians, while crushing the rebellion. In 1858, General Hugh Rose arrived at Jhansi at the head of his army. It was then that Rani Laxmibai decided to take up arms to defend her state, because it was clear that she was being cheated and abused like everyone else. According to J.W. Kaye, author of the History of Indian Mutiny of 1857-58, the siege of Jhansi lasted from March 22 to April 5, 1858.
In many ways, Laxmibai became the reluctant heroine of the activist, who happened to be in the wrong place at the right time. He bravely fought against the British forces of General Rose at Jhansi and was joined by other leading soldiers. Under increasing pressure, he was forced to flee overnight from Jhansi Fort on horseback to join his fellow rebels, Rao Sahib and Tatya Tope at Kalpi. The united rebels took the fort of Gwalior, an important stronghold in the region and made a final threat to the suppression of the rebellion by the British.
