A movie made on 1955 about Jhansi rani

The film covers 20 years in Manu's life, from 1838 to 1858, and plays more like an extended pageant instead of a drama, with selected scenes from the whole saga singled out for epic treatment. Everything takes place on a public stage, with few scenes of personal drama or human intimacy. It's all painted in broad strokes, which makes for some very pretty pictures indeed, but keeps viewers somewhat at a distance. We never get inside Manu's head or that of Rajguru, her wise and loyal mentor and adviser. .

Still, it's quite an impressive visual spectacle, with rich color in every shot and picturesque scenes that take advantage of dozens of age-old palaces, public buildings and fortress walls on location in India. The sets are lavish and the costumes beautiful in every scene. There are scenes of celebration with hundreds of extras in procession and a full-scale performance of a dance piece entitled "The Tiger and the Flame," commissioned by the Maharajah expressly to welcome his new wife to court.

And there are the battle scenes with hundreds of extras, many on horseback and all in uniform, lots of cannons and scenes of combat, including close-quarter fighting as two cavalries clash and horsemen hack and cleave at each other. There are two major battle scenes in the cut n viewed and they're both quite spectacular, on a par with Hollywood productions of the time and certainly grander than those in the similarly-themed Hollywood film made the same year, KING OF THE KHYBER RIFLES, starring Tyrone Power

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BTW Has anyone watched the movie