Shabana Azmi (right) in a still from the film

Shabana Azmi will be seen in a royal avatar in her upcoming international film, Kavi Raz's The Black Prince. The veteran actor plays Maharani Jind Kaur (1817 –1863), the youngest wife of the first king of the Sikh empire, Ranjit Singh, and the mother of the last king, Duleep Singh. The British in India described the maharani as "a seductress, too rebellious to be controlled".