Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi

Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi (2019)

iमणिकर्णिका

The Queen of Jhansi

Story of Rani Lakshmibai, one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and her resistance to the British Rule.

Date of release
2019-01-25
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (57)
Runtime
2h 28m
Genres
History, Drama, Action
Director
Kangana Ranaut, Krish Jagarlamudi

Casting

Interesting facts

Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language epic historical drama film based on the life of Rani Lakshmi Bai of Jhansi. It is directed by Krish Jagarlamudi and Kangana Ranaut from a screenplay written by V. Vijayendra Prasad. Produced by Zee Studios, the film stars Ranaut in the title role.

Production

The outdoor locations of the film were Jaipur, Jodhpur, Alsisar (Jhunjhunu) & Bikaner in Rajasthan and Narmada Ghat, Ahilya Fort in Madhya Pradesh. Besides these, the film was shot at studios in Hyderabad and Mumbai.

Sukant Panigrahy, Sriram Iyengar, and Sujeet Sawant were hired as the production designers of the film. Sujeet and Sriram have also done production designing for Bajirao Mastani (2015).

Principal photography was completed in October 2018. By that time, only 10 days of filming work remained. Krish intended to do that minimal patchwork and then move on to direct N. T. R.. However, Sonu Sood was replaced by Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, forcing the team to reshoot all of Sood's scenes. As Krish was busy directing N. T. R., Ranaut took over, making her directorial debut. Both Krish and Ranaut received joint directorial credit.

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