Bandit Queen

Release Date:

Jun 30, 1995

Running Time:

2:01

Genre:

Docudrama

Director:

Shekhar Kapur

Cast:

Seema Biswas	Phoolan Devi
Nirmal Pandey	Vikram Mallah
Manoj Bajpai	Man Singh
Rajesh Vivek	Mustaquim
Govind Namdeo	SriRam
Saurabh Shukla	Kailash
Raghuveer Yadav	Madho

Producers:

Bobby Bedi

Writers:

Ranjit Kapoor, Mala Sen

Language:

English

Related Programs:

Gandhi

A Passage to India

Once Were Warriors

Bawandar

The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey

This lauded Indian drama focuses on the life of Phoolan Devi, a revered criminal who eventually went on to become a politician. The film details the hardships that Phoolan faced in her youth as a female member of a lower caste. Subject to sexual abuse at the hands of numerous men, Phoolan isn't treated with respect until she falls in with a gang led by Vikram Mallah . Later, Phoolan forms her own gang and gains a remarkable level of notoriety across India.

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