Vijay Deverakonda and Rashmika Mandanna's Ranabaali takes audiences back to one of the darkest periods of colonial Indian history. Set against the Great Madras Famine of 1876–78, the period action drama explores starvation, British rule and the resistance that emerged when ordinary people struggled to survive. But how much of the film is based on real events? Did Ranabaali and Jayamma actually exist? And is the story of the famine, which killed millions of people, being told through fictional characters?
