Bandit Queen
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1hr
59mins
Directed by
Shekhar Kapur,
Starring
Seema Biswas,
Nirmal Pandey,
Rajesh Vivek,
Raghubir Yadav
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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.
