The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi is a 2019 British period drama film on the 1857 Indian Rebellion against the British East India Company.
The film was co-written, produced and directed by Swati Bhise, with Charles Salmon as co-producer.
The film was originally titled" Swords and Sceptres: The Rani of Jhansi".
Devika Bhise, who also co-wrote the script, plays the lead role of Rani Lakshmibai.
In November 2017, Rupert Everett and Derek Jacobi joined the cast.
Principal photography was completed in December 2017.
Gangadhar Rao
Maharaja Gangadhar Rao Newalkar was the 5th Maharaja of Jhansi situated in northern India, a vassal of Maratha Empire.
He was the son of Shiv Rao Bhau and a descendant of Raghunath Hari Newalkar (who was the first governor of Jhansi under Maratha rule).
The ancestors of Gangadhar Rao hailed from Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra.
Some of them moved to Khandesh, when Peshwa rule began and served important posts in the Peshwa and Holkar armies.
Raghunath Hari Newalkar strengthened Maratha polity in Bundelkhand, however as he grew old, he handed over the reins of Jhansi to his younger brother Shiv Rao Bhau.
On the death of Raghunath Rao III in 1838, the British rulers accepted his brother Gangadhar Rao as the Raja of Jhansi in 1843.
In May 1842, Gangadhar Rao married a young girl named Manikarnika, who was renamed as Laxmibai, who later became the Queen of Jhansi and revolted against the British during the uprising of 1857.
Raja Gangadhar Rao adopted a child called Anand Rao, the son of his cousin Vasudev Newalkar, who was renamed Damodar Rao, on the day before he died.
The adoption was in the presence of the British political officer who was given a letter from the raja requesting that the child should be treated with kindness and that the government of Jhansi should be given to his widow for her lifetime.
After the death of the raja in November 1853 because Damodar Rao was adopted, the British East India Company, under Governor-General Lord Dalhousie, applied the Doctrine of Lapse, rejecting Damodar Rao's claim to the throne and annexing the state to its territories.
Claude Weisz
Claude Weisz is a French film director born in Paris.
Time Out for Romance
Time Out for Romance is a 1937 American romantic comedy film directed by Malcolm St. Clair, written by Lou Breslow and John Patrick, and starring Claire Trevor, Michael Whalen, Joan Davis, Chick Chandler, Douglas Fowley and Benny Bartlett.
It was released on February 10, 1937, by 20th Century Fox.
Penny Pinchers
Penny Pinchers( lit." Penny- Pinching Romance" or" Saving Up for Romance") is a 2011 South Korean romantic comedy film written and directed Kim Jung- hwan, starring Han Ye- seul and Song Joong- ki.
Kim received a Best New Director nomination at the 48th Baeksang Arts Awards in 2012.
Swati Bhise
Swati Bhise( née Gupte; born October 21, 1959) is a Bharatanatyam dancer, choreographer, educator, producer, and promoter of the arts.
Francis Fenech
Francis Xavier Fenech( 17 March 1892 – 13 May 1969) was a Maltese prelate who became the first bishop of Jhansi in India.
He was born in Floriana Malta on March 17, 1892.
He studied at St Aloysius College in Birkirkara.
At the age of 19 he joined the Capuchin order where he was given the name of Francis Xavier and followed a course of philosophy and theology.
He was ordained to the priesthood by Giovanni Maria Camilleri the Bishop of Gozo on May 25, 1918.
After his ordination he was assigned to work in the parish of Marsa.
In June 1923 Fenech left Malta for Daman to Bombay, present day Mumbai in India.
He spent six years in Bandra, Zaroli, Itarsi and Shampura.
In April 1929 he was stationed in Jhansi in order to develop this territory into a diocese.
The territory of Jhansi was separated from the Diocese of Allahabad in 1940 and created into an Apostolic Prefecture.
Fenech was appointed as the Apostolic Administrator of the dioceses of Allahabad and Lucknow because their bishop Joseph A. Poli was taken prisoner in a concentration camp.
In 1946 Fenech was appointed as the first prefect of the Apostolic Prefecture of Jhansi.
In 1954 Pope Pius XII elevated the Prefecture into the Diocese of Jhansi and appointed Fenech as its first bishop.
He was consecrated on November 28 of the same year by Archbishop Mikiel Gonzi of Malta at the St John's Co- Cathedral in Valletta.
During his time as bishop he worked tirelessly in improving the diocese's structure and established a diocesan clergy.
He also founded many charities, schools and hospitals.
On May 8, 1967 he retired as Bishop of Jhansi and was appointed as titular Bishop of Muzuca in Byzacena.
Fenech died on May 13, 1969 of Cerebral Haemorrhage in India.
He was buried in St. Jude's Shrine of Jhansi( India).
Malcolm St. Clair (filmmaker)
Malcolm St. Clair( May 17, 1897 – June 1, 1952) was a Hollywood film director, writer, producer and actor.
Rani of Jhansi
Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi( 19 November 1828 – 18 June 1858), was the queen of the princely state of Jhansi in North India currently present in Jhansi district in Uttar Pradesh, India.
She was one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and became a symbol of resistance to the British Raj for Indian nationalists.
W. Augustus Barratt
W. Augustus Barratt( 1873- 1947) was a Scottish- born, later American, songwriter and musician.

Question: Which film has the director born later, Time Out For Romance or The Warrior Queen Of Jhansi?
Answer: The Warrior Queen Of Jhansi