The Warrior Queen of Jhansi

"As much as it appears this film wanted to tell Lakshmibai’s story and the women who fought with her, it does not. From the beginning it’s obvious the film has no interest in her as a fully realized person. She is portrayed as happily marrying and birthing children for a man decades older whom she was given to. Her character is NEVER developed. The whole film lazily sets up one or two battles, that’s is. And the film does a massive disservice to the people of India by whitewashing the brutality and insidiousness of the East India Trading Co. the English Crown. Yes it shows the verbal hypocrisy of the English colonizers and small tokens if verbal othering but not the sheer cruelty of both the English crown and the East India Company, who had their blessing, as oppressive colonizers. I’m not suggesting it should have been more gruesome but the massive whitewashing should have been replaced with honesty about the horrors of colonization."

"IMDB reviews raved about a similar film released the same year, but this can hold its own. Emphasizes the story of the historical heroin, so might be a bit choppy for emphasis of duality in motherhood to child and country. Recommend! "