Bandit Queen
1994, Film, 119 min, Biography, Crime, Drama, Hindi, India, MoviePedia score 68
Revenge was her reply.
Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and brutalized, Phoolan 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.
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Directed by Shekhar Kapur
Cast
- Seema Biswas as Phoolan Devi
- Nirmal Pandey as Vikram Mallah
- Rajesh Vivek as Mustaquim
- Raghubir Yadav as Madho
- Anirudh Agarwal as Babu Gujjar
- Aseem Bajaj as Man Singh Gang
- Manoj Bajpayee as Man Singh
- Pallavi Bharti as Little Girl
- Kamia Bhatt as Rukhmani, Age 11
- Puran Bhatt as Man Singh Gang
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