Bandit Queen
1994 · Movie · NR · 119 min · ★ 6.6 · 95% critics
In rural India’s rigid, patriarchal society, a young woman from a lower caste endures years of abuse and humiliation before fighting back and carving out a dangerous kind of freedom. Her rise as an outlaw becomes both a fierce personal reckoning and a harsh look at the violence and injustice around her.
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Details
- Original title
- बैंडिट क्वीन
- Years
- 1994
- Release date
- 1994-01-26
- Language
- Hindi
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 95/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.6/10 (61 votes)
About
You may like this if you want a raw, controversial biographical crime drama about survival and revenge; Not for you if graphic sexual violence, relentless brutality, or a deeply bleak mood would be too much, even compared with Gangubai Kathiawadi or Shootout at Lokhandwala.
Pros: powerful true-story energy; fearless lead performance; sharp social critique | Cons: very graphic sexual violence; bleak, unsettling tone; uneven character motivation
Themes
- guerrilla warfare
- 1970s
- biography
- poverty
- bandit
- militant
- social issues
- 1960s
Awards & recognition
- International Submission to the Academy Awards · 1995 · nominated
Cast & crew
Seema Biswas
as Phoolan Devi
Nirmal Pandey
as Vikram Mallah
Rajesh Vivek
as Mustaquim
Raghubir Yadav
as Madho
Aditya Srivastava
as Puttilal
Manoj Bajpayee
as Man Singh
Ranjit Chowdhry
as Shiv Narain
Harish Kumar
as Tarika
Govind Namdeo
as SriRam
Hemant Pandey
as Ashokchand's Friend
Directed by Shekhar Kapur