Bandit Queen (1994)

Overview

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.

Cast

Seema Biswas

Phoolan Devi

Nirmal Pandey

Vikram Mallah

Rajesh Vivek

Mustaquim

Raghubir Yadav

Madho

Aditya Srivastava

Puttilal

Manoj Bajpayee

Man Singh