Top 10 Most Awaited Action Movies Of 2018

6. Manikarnika

The Queen of Jhansi: 2017 could be written off as a year studded with failures for the very talented Kangana Ranaut. 2017 kicked off for her with the period drama Rangoon where she played the role of Julia, an actress and stuntwoman in the mid-1900s along with Shahid Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan. The actress even learned horse riding and sword fighting for this role and had performed all the stunts in the movie herself. Though the movie failed to perform well at the box office due to a weak script, Kangana’s acting received rave reviews from all around as she tried to carry the movie on her shoulders. Her next movie in 2017 was Simran. It was about a Gujrati woman in USA and was loosely based on the life of an NRI in US who was convicted of four bank robberies. The Harshal Mehta directed movie failed to perform even mildly well at the box office owing to a weak script and surprisingly bad acting by Kangana Ranaut.

Kangana Ranaut would now be seen in 2018 swinging a sword as Maharani Laxmibai in her next flick, Mannikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi. It is supposed to be a biographical action movie about Rani Laxmi Bai of Jhansi and is being directed by Krish, who had also directed ‘Gabbar is back’. The movie is slated to release in April, 2018. Manikarnika was the childhood name of Rani Laxmibai. Her father was a courtier and guru to Peshwa of Bithur. She spent her childhood around the royal family owing to which she learnt horse riding, sword fighting along with reading and writing. In 1842, she was married to Maharaja of Jhansi after his first wife had died.

When the Maharaja himself died in 1853, the East India Company applied the Doctrine of Lapse to Jhansi and tried to annex the territory. This was when Rani Laxmi Bai decided to pick up arms and take part in the mutiny against the British rule. The movie is destined to do well at the box office thanks to the personality it is based on.