{"id":25601,"date":"2020-12-11T18:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T09:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2020\/dec\/11\/the-warrior-queen-of-jhansi-review-indian-rebellion-rani-lakshmibai-rupert-everett"},"modified":"2020-12-11T18:00:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T09:00:24","slug":"the-warrior-queen-of-jhansi-review-indian-rebellion-epic-gets-feminist-retelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25601","title":{"rendered":"The Warrior Queen of Jhansi  review \u2013 Indian rebellion epic gets feminist retelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Devika Bhise as the widowed monarch Rani Lakshmibai shows the Victorian Brits, including Rupert Everett, what she\u2019s capable of in this impressive drama<\/p>\n<p>As Rani Lakshmibai (Devika Bhise), the titular queen in this colourful historical epic, slices and dices her way through a battlefield towards the end of the film, her foe Sir Hugh Rose (a spectacularly muttonchopped Rupert Everett) looks on with awe, intoning solemnly: \u201cShe\u2019s like Joan of Arc!\u201d The moment somehow sums the movie up, encapsulating The Warrior Queen of Jhansi\u2019s signature blend of impressiveness, ridiculousness, and lustily on-the-nose messaging in one neat package. <\/p>\n<p>Although the story of this young, legendary widowed monarch who became <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jan\/25\/ill-destroy-you-all-indian-historical-epic-star-critics-manikarnika\">one of the leading figures in the Indian rebellion of 1857<\/a> has been told before in countless books, films, TV shows and even video games from all over the world, the makers of this international co-production have found a reasonably fresh way into the story, emphasising Rani as a proto-feminist, mother and leader of women.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2020\/dec\/11\/the-warrior-queen-of-jhansi-review-indian-rebellion-rani-lakshmibai-rupert-everett\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devika Bhise as the widowed monarch Rani Lakshmibai shows the Victorian Brits, including Rupert Everett, what she\u2019s capable of in this impressive dramaAs Rani Lakshmibai (Devika Bhise), the titular queen in this colourful historical epic, slices and di&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1780,71,69,62,1781,61,1782,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-and-adventure-films","category-culture","category-film","category-india","category-period-and-historical-films","category-south-and-central-asia","category-war-films","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25602,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25601\/revisions\/25602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}