Their robbing of the rich (whose spoils they share with their fellow low-caste citizens) turns them into national heroes among the poor.īut their Robin Hood interlude is short-lived. Forced to submit to his sexual desire, she leaves him, only to be mistreated at every turn by rapacious bandits, corrupt police officials and scornful upper-caste Thakurs.Įventually, Devi (played by Seema Biswas) is befriended by Vikram Mallah (Nirmal Pandey), an outlaw who shows her respect and invites her to be a co-leader in his gang. Sunita Bhatt, portraying the young Devi (whose experience mirrors countless preteen girls in India today), is given to a husband at the age of 11 in exchange for a lean cow and a rusty bicycle. THE NEED for brutal revenge was never so unambiguously laid out as it is in "Bandit Queen," a graphic (and hagiographic) account of the revolutionary, victimized life of real-life Indian outlaw Phoolan Devi. Graphic rape scenes, profanity and violence.
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