Hunterwali

Hunterwali is a relatively little known but ancient cinematic franchise with only eight films. Each of the films were made years or decades apart. 

The original Hunterwali had a sequel released in 1943. The film itself got remade and was spun off a couple of times in Hindi, but the Urdu, Telugu, Punjabi and Bhojpuri variants are all standalone and quite different. Hunterwali is the only predominantly consistent legacy character in nearly all of the films, although other recurring characters do appear, such as Chabukwali and Pistolwali. 

A possible light novel/manga/animated adaptation will instead be set in what’s now the Tanzanian part of the Swahili coast. In this version, Hunterwali, the daughter of a commoner merchant and a former slave, is trying to ensure that her lovely superiors Nana and Pinku survive the deadly antics of fellow related aristos. Meanwhile Chieftain Ilam and most of his fellow screwed up male offspring (Ramallah and various others) got assassinated in subsequent parts by their fellow relatives (including Kahan), who in turn killed the benevolent Abdullah El Atrash earlier. 

Kahan’s main plan was to turn Hunterwali into a concubine for the rest of her then uncertain future life, which still isn’t funny even by modern standards, and that’s also to the chagrin of Hunterwali’s two other good natured Friends, The ditzy airhead Sharifa Haq and the benevolent late Sahib Abdullah El Atrash’s daughter, the bookworm Asha. Village man Gamal and the former’s filthy rich son Ishar sort of lust for her, even though they initially don’t know her well. Later on, the rather dishonest jesters Banwari and Behemoth Rashid Bin Said come in to contest the huge marriage proposal, which means that not only aren’t they even knowing that their actions are definitely bad for anyone, such actions, which reduce their actual masculinity into a piece of highly limiting crap, do not make sense without a warning. Much to the reluctant dismay of Kahan, they unfortunately have to fight almost to the point of nearing death over Hunterwali and Nana instead. For all the heavies, they do not all learn that a serial defiling attempt isn’t good for either men or women at all, whereas Kahan - in a rather egregious way - simply operates above what’s considered good, neutral and bad to most of society. 

Another heavy named Adam Haider comes into the marriage battle trying to serenade Hunterwali, only for her to seriously whip him in the ass. While Kahan gets away with the rules of society, the very unlucky heavies will all bear the brunt of karma as they truly lose the battle and leave in a sickly fashion, culminating in Hunterwali introducing her own two sisters to the reality of mitigating the rampant crime in the coastal Tanzanian states. Near the end, Kahan appoints his even scarier relative Hamid to become ruler of the poor town, much to the dismay of not only Hunterwali and her friends, but also most of said town’s population. No matter which moment plainly rolls into Hunterwali’s own angry eyes, it ends with Hamid offing most of the Husseins to death and technically succeeding; resulting in the once brilliant town being utterly rendered defunct. At the end, she married a childhood friend of hers, named Mavuno. 

The sequel Hunterwali Ki Beti focuses on Hunterwali’s own daughter Maisha, a girl who looks after injured wild animals and treks through the coastal jungle to find a boyfriend.