Phoolan stays with Kailash for a while but is eventually compelled to leave. En route to another village, she encounters a troop of dakus (bandits) of the Babu Gujjar gang, led by Vikram Mallah Mastana ( Nirmal Pandey). At the next town meeting, the panchayat wield their patriarchal authority to banish Phoolan from the village, since she will not consent to the sexual advances of the higher caste males, who treat her like sub-human chattel.Īccordingly, Phoolan lives with her cousin Kailash ( Saurabh Shukla). As Phoolan grows older, she faces incidents of (non-consensual) fondling and groping from the Thakur men (whose parents make up the panchayat or village government). (Phoolan's family, as well as Puttilal's family, belong to the lower-ranked Mallah sub-caste the higher ranked Thakur caste takes the lead in social and political situations.) Puttilal is physically and sexually abusive, and Phoolan eventually runs away and returns home. Phoolan is exposed to some sexual and exploitative abuses, including the caste system. Phoolan's aging father Devideen (Ram Charan Nirmalker) conforming to his culture, regrettably disagrees, and Phoolan is sent off with Puttilal. Though child marriages were customary during that time, Phoolan's mother Moola (Savitri Raekwar) objects to the timing of the match. Phoolan is married to a twenty-something year old man called Puttilal ( Aditya Shrivastava). The film opens in the summer of 1968 at a small village in Uttar Pradesh. The film was selected as the Indian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 67th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. The film was premiered in the Directors' Fortnight section of the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, and was screened at the Edinburgh Film Festival. The film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi, Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie and Best Direction for that year.
The music was composed by Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. It was written, produced, and directed by Shekhar Kapur and starred Seema Biswas as the title character. Bandit Queen is a 1994 Indian Hindi-language biographical action-adventure film based on the life of Phoolan Devi as covered in the book India's Bandit Queen: The True Story of Phoolan Devi by the Indian author Mala Sen.
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