3 Films & TV Shows Set In India During The 1820s
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Veer
England 🇮🇳 India The 1820sA Pindari Prince goes to England to study military tactics so that he can avenge his people, but while there, he falls in love.
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The Deceivers
🇮🇳 India The 1820sHow far can a man journey into darkness...and still find his way back? — India, 1825: the country lives in mortal fear of cult members known as the “Deceivers." They commit robbery and ritualistic murder. Appalled by their activities, an English military man, Captain William Savage, conceives a hazardous plot to stop them. In disguise, he plans to himself become a “Deceiver” and infiltrate their numbers. Ever present in Savage’s adventures is a sense of dread; he is in constant fear of betrayal and vengeance and also undergoes a disturbing psychological transformation as he experiences the cult’s blood lust firsthand.
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The Stranglers of Bombay
🇮🇳 India The 1820sThis is true! This is real! This actually happened! — In 1826 British-ruled India, the secret Cult of Thugee demonstrates their worship of their goddess, Kali, by the mutilation and mass murder of thousands of Indians while pirating the shipments of the British East-Indian Tea Company. As the British military leaders play down the implications of the piracy and disappearances, a lone captain realizes that they are not just coincidence and sets out to uncover the source of the deviltry, at the risk of his career. Based on history.
