Bandit Queen

Action, Crime, Drama, History

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Shekhar Kapur

Status Released

Release Date 1994-01-26

Storyline

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.

"Revenge was her reply."