12 Films & TV Shows Set In India During The 1850s
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Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi
🇮🇳 India The 1850sStory of Rani Lakshmibai, one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and her resistance to the British Rule.
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Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy
🇮🇳 India The 1850sGwalior Fort, during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. In a moment of despair, Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, encourages her men by telling them the heroic story of Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy, a brave Telugu chieftain who took up arms in 1846 to protest against the numerous arbitrariness and crimes perpetrated by the leaders and military forces of the East India Company.
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The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
🇮🇳 India The 1850sQueen. Soldier. Legend. — The true story of Lakshmibai, the historic Queen of Jhansi who fiercely led her army against the British East India Company in the infamous mutiny of 1857.
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Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
🇮🇳 India The 1850sThe greatest journey is finding where you belong — A human child raised by wolves, must face off against a menacing tiger named Shere Khan, as well as his own origins.
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Mangal Pandey - The Rising
🇮🇳 India The 1850sThe film begins in 1857, when India was ruled by the British East India Company. Mangal Pandey is a sepoy, a soldier of Indian origin, in the army of the East India Company. Pandey is fighting in the Anglo-Afghan Wars and saves the life of his British commanding officer, William Gordon. Gordon is indebted to Pandey and a strong friendship develops between them, transcending both rank and race.
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Junoon
🇮🇳 India The 1850sSet during the 1857 War of Independence, an obsessed Indian Nawab desires to wed a young Anglo-Indian woman, but the girl's obstinate mother stands between them.
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The Chess Players
🇮🇳 India The 1850sSatyajit Ray's First Hindi Film — It is the year 1856. Nawab Wajid Ali Shah is the king of Awadh, one of the last independent kingdoms of India. The British colonialists, intent on controlling this rich land, have sent general Outram on a secret mission to clear the way for an annexation. Pressure is mounting amidst intrigue and political manoeuvres, but the Nawab whiles away his time in pursuit of pleasure and religious practice. The court is of no help either—Court nobles Mir and Mirza, ignoring the situation of their country and all their duties towards their families, spend their days playing endless games of chess. The film is based on Munshi Premchand's short story of the same name.
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Bengal Brigade
🇮🇳 India The 1850sFrom marble palace to teeming jungle all India rocked with the violence of the great rebellion ! — Year 1856, British India. Capt. Jeffrey Claybourne is severely punished after disobeying an order. Feeling unworthy of his fiancée Vivian Morrow, the daughter of his superior officer, Claybourne leaves the army until he could regain his reputation. When the Rajah Karam launches an attack on the British forces in India, Claybourne finds a chance at redemption.
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Jhansi Ki Rani
🇮🇳 India The 1850sSet in the 19th century against the backdrop of the Mutiny of 1857, the film is about the bravery of queen Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, who took up arms and led her army against the British.
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1857
🇮🇳 India The 1850sHistorical fiction drama set during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, also known as the First war of Independence.
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
🇮🇳 India The 1850sTheirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die — In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must endure several betrayals and misfortunes before he can achieve his revenge at the Balaclava Heights, on October 25, 1854, the most glorious day of the Crimean War.
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The Beggar of Cawnpore
🇮🇳 India The 1850sDr. Robert Lowndes of the British army practices in a small Indian outpost during a cholera epidemic, and to ease his fever, uses morphine. He becomes an addict, but his sweetheart, Betty Archer, makes him promise to reform. Another of Betty's suitors, however, Captain Guy Douglas, uses drugs to tempt Lowndes.
