Bandit Queen

• 6.6 Action
• 1995-02-17
• 119 minutes mins

Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and brutalized, Phooland Devi finds freedom only as an avenging warrior, the eponymous Bandit Queen. Devi becomes a kind a bloody Robin Hood; this extraordinary biographical film offers both a vivid portrait of a driven woman and a savage critique of the society that made her.

Starring:

Seema Biswas (Phoolan Devi) Nirmal Pandey (Vikram Mallah) Rajesh Vivek (Mustaquim) Raghubir Yadav (Madho) Aditya Srivastava (Puttilal) Manoj Bajpayee (Man Singh) Ranjit Chowdhry (Shiv Narain) Harish Kumar (Tarika) Govind Namdeo (SriRam) Hemant Pandey (Ashokchand's Friend)

Director:

Shekhar Kapur

Writer:

Mala Sen