Daku Maharani

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Daku Maharani
Directed by Teerat Singh Johar
Screenplay byPrem Kumar Sharma
Produced byVimal Jain
Starring Kiran Kumar
Deepak Shirke
Joginder
Shiva Rindani
Music bySawan Kumar Sawan
Production
company
Nishu Art
Release date
  • 17 November 2000 (2000-11-17)
Running time
105 minutes
Country India
Language Hindi

Daku Maharani is a Hindi rape and revenge, dacoit film of Bollywood directed by Teerat Singh Johar and produced by Vimal Jain. [1] This film was released in 2000 in the banner of Nishu Art. [2] [3] [4]

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Plot

Maharani is a young woman who was brutally raped by village leader Thakur. Thakur is very powerful and influential person who stigmatised her as a fallen woman. Maharani was sent out of the village. Without getting justice she then turns into a daciat and takes revenge against the thakur. She became Daku Maharani for the poor.

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