Hunterwali

Hunterwali A Woman with a Whip is a 1935 Hindi stunt film by the Wadia Movietone company of Bombay now Mumbai, featuring Fearless Nadia as the heroine. A story of a princess who fights injustice as the masked crusader Hunterwali lit. lady with the whip, the film propelled Nadia and the Wadia brothers of Wadia Movietone to fame.

The story begins on a stormy night, with a prologue explaining that Krishnavati and her infant son are getting evicted from her house by the Prime Minister Vazier, Ranamal. Earlier, Ranamal had also had her brother murdered. The film switches toyears later when Krishnavatis son Jaswant is an adult. The royal car hits Jaswant in an accident. Then the scene leads to Princess Madhuri Fearless Nadia offering Jaswant compensation in the form of gold for the injury caused. Jaswant gallantly refuses the gift and the princess is attracted to him. The villain Ranamal also has a crush on the princess and wants to marry her. This proposal is opposed by her father the king who is imprisoned by Ranamal. Madhuri, assumes the role of Hunterwali, a masked vigilante, the protector of the poor and punisher of evildoers. She then goes around performing stunts like jumping over a moving carriage and then defeatingsoldiers in one sweep with swashbuckling whipping style. She does not spare Jaswant either as she steals his prized possession, a horse called Punjab, but soon gives it back to him. Jaswant plots his vendetta and finds Madhuri bathing nude in the river and kidnaps her and gifts her to Ranamal for a reward, but she later escapes. At the end, Madhuri and Jaswant join hands to fight Ranamal together and defeat him.Hunterwali was a Black and White film running for 164 minutes. During the production stage, there was an objection to the films title. Language pundits objected to the blending of two words Hunter, an English word denoting whip and wali, which was a Hindi word made a corrupted hybrid which did not do justice to either language. ........

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