Bandit Queen

"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

Cast

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