Another fun Bollywood Sheena/Tarzan knock-off

Also released as "Lady Tarzan", a lost girl grows up in the jungle with the help of animals to become a tough, athletic "Sheena" type heroine. She wears a two-piece leopard-skin outfit and matching headband and can beat up six guys at once using mixed martial arts. During an epic cat-fight with an evil tribal queen, there are humorous inserts of two lionesses fighting (meow!). Does this also have totally goofy Bollywood musical interludes? You bet. 

Like most of the Sheena-inspired films from India (and there are quite a few), this has lots of action, music, and over-the-top acting that is unintentionally funny and entertaining to watch.

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Raised by compassionate wild animals as one of their own, a helpless eight-year-old girl grows into a beautiful, untamed woman and becomes Lady Tarzan: the fearless Queen of the Elephants.

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