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Bandit Queen
बैंडिट क्वीन
“Revenge was her reply.”
Cast
Seema Biswas
Phoolan Devi
Nirmal Pandey
Vikram Mallah
Rajesh Vivek
Mustaquim
Raghubir Yadav
Madho
Aditya Srivastava
Puttilal
Manoj Bajpayee
Man Singh
Ranjit Chowdhry
Shiv Narain
Harish Kumar
Tarika
Govind Namdeo
SriRam
Hemant Pandey
Ashokchand's Friend
Sitaram Panchal
Lalaram
Lakshmi
Poolan / Man Singh Gang
Gajraj Rao
Ashokchand
Saurabh Shukla
Kailash
Anupam Shyam
Ganshyam
Anirudh Agarwal
Babu Gujjar
Aseem Bajaj
Poolan / Man Singh Gang
Pallavi Bharti
Little Girl
Kamia Bhatt
Rukhmani, Age 11
Puran Bhatt
Poolan / Man Singh Gang
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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