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Bandit Queen

Release Date:June 30, 1995

Running Time:119 min

Genres:Drama, Action, History, Crime

Director

Cast

Seema Biswas Nirmal Pandey Rajesh Vivek Raghubir Yadav Aditya Srivastava Manoj Bajpayee Ranjit Chowdhry Harish Kumar Govind Namdeo Hemant Pandey Sitaram Panchal Lakshmi

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Synopsis

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.

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