Burma Rani

Queen of Burma) is a 1945 Indian Tamil-language war-spy film set against the backdrop of the Second World War.

The secondary plot is a love story between Ranjit Kumar, one of the pilots, and Rani.

[8][9] The local war propaganda officer, G. T. B. Harvey, presided over the premiere of the film.

[8][10] However, Harvey later grew suspicious of the film’s portrayal of Japanese characters and withheld its commercial release, reflecting the ideological complexity of a war film set against the backdrop of India, Britain, and Japan.

[8] While the Japanese characters were negatively stereotyped, the Indian spies and military officers were portrayed with a nuanced patriotism that could be interpreted as anti-colonial.