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Padmaavat (2018)

★ 6.9 · 307 ratings on TMDB

The Goddess Queen

Padmaavat poster★ 6.9

Rajputana, India, 13th century. The tyrannical usurper Alauddin Khilji, sultan of Delhi, becomes obsessed with Queen Padmavati, wife of King Ratan Singh of Mewar, and goes to great lengths to satisfy his greed for her.

DirectorSanjay Leela Bhansali
CastAayam Mehta, Aditi Rao Hydari, Anupriya Goenka, Deepika Padukone, Jim Sarbh, Padmavati Rao
GenresDrama, History, Romance
The emergence reading

Padmaavat keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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