Bandit Queen
Revenge was her reply.
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.
- Year: 1995
- Country: India, United Kingdom
- Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History
- Studio: Kaleidoscope Productions, Kaleidoscope Entertainment, Film4 Productions
- Keyword: guerrilla warfare, 1970s, biography, poverty, bandit, militant, social issues, 1960s
- Director: Shekhar Kapur
- Cast: Seema Biswas, Nirmal Pandey, Rajesh Vivek, Raghubir Yadav, Aditya Srivastava, Manoj Bajpayee