Film
Bandit Queen
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.
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 BiswasPhoolan Devi
- Nirmal PandeyVikram Mallah
- Rajesh VivekMustaquim
- Raghubir YadavMadho
- Aditya SrivastavaPuttilal
- Manoj BajpayeeMan Singh
- Ranjit ChowdhryShiv Narain
- Harish KumarTarika
