Bandit Queen
Feb 17 1995
•2h 59m
•Action, Crime, Drama, History
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.
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Seema Biswas
Phoolan Devi
Nirmal Pandey
Vikram Mallah
Rajesh Vivek
Mustaquim
Raghubir Yadav
Madho
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