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Bandit Queen

  • February 1995
  • 1hr

    59mins

  • Action
  • Crime
  • Drama
  • History
  • Directed by

    Shekhar Kapur,

    Starring

    Seema Biswas,

    Nirmal Pandey,

    Rajesh Vivek,

    Raghubir Yadav

    ...

    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.