India, Oct. 8 -- The trailer of Rahul Sankrityan's Vijay Deverakonda and Rashmika Mandanna-starrer Ranabaali was dropped on Thursday evening. The 3-minute-56-second trailer, which stars Arnold Vosloo as the antagonist, tells the story of a British-manufactured famine in South India.

The trailer begins with a folk performance celebrating the legacy of Ranabaali of Singanamala Hill. In a folktale, it's narrated that a woman gave birth to him in a cave years ago. It's soon prophesied that he has greatness in his destiny. The village he stays in is asked to work for the Britishers in exchange for wages, but they are instead ill-treated.

In the middle of it all, Ranabaali wonders why the British have any control over the village in the first...