As June 18 marks the death anniversary of Rani Laxmi Bai, Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut took to social media on Friday to pay tribute to the Indian freedom fighter. Rani Laxmi Bai, popularly known as Jhansi ki Rani, had played an important role during India’s first war of independence. The queen died in battle on June 18, 1858. Kangana played the role of the warrior queen in ‘Manikarnika: Queen of Jhansi’, took to her Instagram Stories and shared one of the ‘iconic’ scenes from the film.
Kangana wrote ,”On this day when Rani Laxmi Bai made supreme self sacrifice. Remembering her iconic roar which shook British empire — ‘Main apni Jhansi nahin dungi’.
Kangana had starred as Rani Laxmibai in the 2019 film “Manikarnika: The Queen Of Jhansi”, which she partially directed.
Urmila Matondkar paid her respects to Rani Laxmi Bai by tweeting “Courage, Honor, Integrity, Bravery, Loyalty, Love and Pride for the land looked like this.”
Kangana who recently recovered from novel coronavirus is waiting for the release of her biographical film “Thalaivi” which was postponed due to increase in COVID-19 cases in India. Directed by Vijay and written by KV Vijayendra Prasad, the movie is about the life of J Jayalalithaa, former Tamil Nadu CM which was supposed to release on threatres on April 23.
