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Eight Down Toofaan Mail
Eight Down Toofaan Mail is an award winning Hindi Film directed by Akriti Singh. The film is based on a fascinating real incident from the 1970s. A woman named Wilayat Mahal landed at the New Delhi railway station claiming to be the Queen of Awadh, her demand was her ancestral property from the per-independence province of Awadh.

Eight Down Toofaan Mail is a fictional take on the real incident. The audience and the reviewers loved the film, it was a part of Indian Panorama at IFFI 2021, Goa. The film has also won the Best Film (youth choice) award at the UK Asian Film Festival and the Best Film, audience choice at the Indic Film Festival.

It also played at the Indo German Film week and was a part of the New Jersey Indian and International Film Festival.

The film was released in PVR theatres on 4th February 2022. It opened to a full house in Mumbai.

Synopsis
“A Queen? No way! Really?”

No gun, no get away, and she almost got what she wanted.

“Where would I live if not in a palace?” she asked.

This was a heist like no other. It was 1974, a woman landed at the New Delhi

Railway station and claimed she was the Queen of Awadh. She asked to

meet Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Her claims in a cloud of suspense and her head held high, she was the living

answer to the question, “How do you become a Queen?”

This film is an almost-heist based on believe-it-or-not true events from the 1970s

at the New Delhi Railway Station with Nawabs from Awadh, reporters from BBC,

the station master, a rickshaw puller, and a queen.

Cast & Crew
Akriti Singh - Queen Alamara II

Surya Rao - Station Master Gurpreet

Gitanjali Kulkarni - Indira Gandhi (Voice)

Shaurya Agarwal - Writer

Akriti Singh - Writer

Akriti Singh - Editor

Reception
The film got rave reviews by the critics.

Famous critic Bhawana Somaya called it ' A breath of fresh air '. Lallantop says ''‘8 डाउन तूफ़ान मेल’ सभी को देखनी चाहिए. ख़ासतौर से उन फिल्ममेकर्स को जो कम बजट का हवाला देकर अपनी फ़िल्म की कमियों को ढंकने की कोशिश करते हैं. एक कम बजट में भी कैसे एक मनोरंजक फ़िल्म बनाई जा सकती है, इसका स्पष्ट नमूना ‘8 डाउन तूफ़ान मेल’ है.'''

This is the link to the review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQNfaPFHBHg

The Reviewer's Hub UK says the film has  'an enigmatic longing that’s hard to resist '

Music
The Music of the film is made by Rabbi Shergill.

The song Hamahüñ Kä Khïläb is available on spotify and Amzon Music etc.

Refrences
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQNfaPFHBHg

https://www.thereviewshub.com/toofan-mail-uk-asian-film-festival/

https://www.thelallantop.com/jhamajham/eight-down-toofan-mail-film-review-starring-surya-rao-directed-by-akriti-singh/

https://goajunction.com/2021/11/23/eight-down-toofaan-mail-is-not-a-film-made-with-money-but-with-passion-akriti-singh/

https://in.bookmyshow.com/samara/movies/eight-down-toofaan-mail/ET00322123

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt13445934/reviews?ref_=tt_ov_rt