Bandit Queen

Jan 26, 1994

1h 59m

★ 6.6

Revenge was her reply.

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.

Genres

Action

Crime

Drama

History

Production Companies

Kaleidoscope Productions

Kaleidoscope Entertainment

Film4 Productions

Bandit Queen Trailers

Cast

Phoolan Devi

Seema Biswas

Vikram Mallah

Nirmal Pandey

Mustaquim

Rajesh Vivek

Madho

Raghubir Yadav

Puttilal

Aditya Srivastava

Man Singh

Manoj Bajpayee

Shiv Narain

Ranjit Chowdhry

Tarika

Harish Kumar

SriRam

Govind Namdeo

Ashokchand's Friend

Hemant Pandey

Lalaram

Sitaram Panchal

Poolan / Man Singh Gang

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