When the Raja of Jhansi dies, the British place harsh conditions before letting the Raja's son, Gangadhar, take over the throne. Jhansi's Rajguru plans ahead by getting a young girl, Manu, from a neighbouring kingdom to marry Gangadhar, despite their age difference. Manu is anointed the Rani of Jhansi and her name is changed to Laxmibai (Kashish). She soon gets pregnant but the newborn child dies a few months later. Bereft, Gangadhar's health begins to fail. With no hope of a natural heir to the kingdom, Gangadhar and Laxmibai adopt a young boy, Diwakar. When Gangadhar dies, Laxmibai attempts to have Diwakar anointed the Raja. However, the British object and soon declare war on Jhansi. How Laxmibai joins forces with Tatya Tope and fights the British to death iforms the rest of the film.

Cast

Tom Alter

Arav Chowdhary

Mangal Panday

Sadashiv Amrapurkar

Sulabha Deshpande

Dinesh Hingoo

Mohan Joshi

Mushtaq Khan

Shweta Menon

Anil Nagrath

Surendra Pal

Tej Sapru

Milind Gunaji

Goga Kapoor

Nirmal Pandey

Ramesh Pandey

Ravi Patwardhan

Rishabh Raj

Nana Sahib Peshwa

Vandana Sen