The Indian historical drama based on the life of Lakshmi Bai had Ulka Gupta playing Manu, a young queen Lakshmi Bai. She started her career in television in the 1988 playing role of Uttara, wife of Abhimanyu and mother of Parikshit, but one of her most prominent performance is from the TV Serial Jhansi Ki Rani in the 1990s on Doordarshan, where she played the lead character of Rani Lakshmi Bai.ĭon't Miss Gwalior Fort: Where Rani Lakshmibai Breathed Her Last Ulka Gupta As Young Manikarnika In Jhansi Ki Rani on Zee TV (2009) Varsha soon elevated to one of the top actresses in the Marathi film industry.

The actor first shot to fame in 1982 as the lead heroine in the super-hit Marathi stage play Brahmachari. Varsha Usgaonkar In Jhansi Ki Rani On Doordarshan (1990s) At the time of its release, it was the most expensive Hindi film up until then to be made, with a budget ₹6 million, but ultimately, became a box office failure. Set in the backdrop of the 1857 mutiny, the film is about the bravery of Queen Lakshmi Bai. The film was dubbed in English with the title - The Tiger and the Flame, and was released in 1956 with the same star cast. Mehtaab In Jhansi Ki Rani (1953)Ĭredited as being the first Technicolour film made in India, the Sohrab Modi directorial saw his wife Mehtaab play the titular role in the 1953 Hindi historical drama. Here's taking a look at five such actors who brought Lakshmi Bai back into our lives through their enactment onscreen. One of the foremost women in India's history of the struggle to free itself from the shackles of the British Raj, a number of actors have, over the years, portrayed the fiery queen on the silver screen. She was given the name Lakshmi Bai by her husband Raja Gangadhar Newalkar, the king of Jhansi, when the two were married in 1842. Immortalised over-ages in both books and the silver screen, most recently by Kangana Ranaut in her epic ‘Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi’, Lakshmi Bai was actually born Manikarnika Tambe in a Marathi Karhade Brahmin family in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.

One of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and a symbol of resistance to the British Raj, Lakshmi Bai, the Rani of Jhansi breathed her last on June 18, 1858.

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