Ladki: Dragon Girl

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Ladki: Dragon Girl
Directed by Ram Gopal Varma
Screenplay byRam Gopal Varma
Story byRam Gopal Varma
Produced byRam Gopal Varma
Jing Liu
T Naresh Kumar
T Sridhar Kumar
StarringPooja Bhalekar
Miya Muqi
Rajpal Yadav
Abhimanyu Singh
CinematographyV. Malharbhatt Joshi
Edited byKamal Ramadugu
Music byPaul Praveen Kumar
Production
company
Artsee Media Production
Release date
  • 15 July 2022 (2022-07-15)
Running time
133 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Ladki: Dragon Girl alternatively titled (Enter the Girl Dragon) [1] [2] is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language martial-arts film [3] written and directed by Ram Gopal Varma, and Jing Liu [4] under an Indo-Chinese production. [5] The film stars Pooja Bhalekar (in her film debut), Miya Muqi, Rajpal Yadav, and Abhimanyu Singh in pivotal roles. [6] It was simultaneously dubbed and released in Chinese, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam languages in the maximum number of theaters for an Indian film. [7] [8] [9]

Contents

Premise

Inspired by the cult classic Enter the Dragon , the film follows an Indian woman's journey to learn kung fu after witnessing her elder sister being sexually assaulted and murdered. [10] [11]

Cast

Soundtrack

The music for the film is composed by Paul Praveen Kumar. [12]

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