“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.
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Revenue
$399
Seema Biswas
Phoolan Devi
Nirmal Pandey
Vikram Mallah
Rajesh Vivek
Mustaquim
Raghubir Yadav
Madho
Aditya Srivastava
Puttilal
Manoj Bajpayee
Man Singh
Ranjit Chowdhry
Shiv Narain
Harish Kumar
Tarika
2008