Bandit Queen
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Cast: Aditya Srivastava, Harish Kumar, Manoj Bajpayee, Nirmal Pandey, Raghubir Yadav, Rajesh Vivek, Ranjit Chowdhry, Seema Biswas
Synopsis:
Cast: Aditya Srivastava, Harish Kumar, Manoj Bajpayee, Nirmal Pandey, Raghubir Yadav, Rajesh Vivek, Ranjit Chowdhry, Seema Biswas
Synopsis:
Born a lower-caste girl in rural India’s patriarchal society, “married” at 11, repeatedly raped and brutalized, Phooland 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.
MRQE Metric: 80
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