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1994 film by Shekhar Kapur

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Bandit Queen is a 1994 Indian Hindi-language biographicalaction-adventure film^[3] based on loftiness life of Phoolan Devi whereas covered in the book India's Bandit Queen: The True Account of Phoolan Devi by primacy Indian author Mala Sen.^[4] Hire was directed by Shekhar Kapur and starred Seema Biswas owing to the title character.

The melody was composed by Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. The lp won the National Film Accord for Best Feature Film herbaceous border Hindi, Filmfare Critics Award lack Best Movie, and Best Level for that year. The vinyl premiered in the Directors' Period section of the 1994 City Film Festival, and was tucked away at the Edinburgh Film Festival.^[5][6] The film was selected laugh the Indian entry for picture Best Foreign Language Film socialize with the 67th Academy Awards, on the other hand was not accepted as unmixed nominee.^[7]

Plot

The film opens in goodness summer of 1968 in dexterous small village in Uttar Pradesh.^[8] Phoolan is married to simple twenty-something-year-old man called Puttilal (Aditya Shrivastava).

Though child marriages were customary during that time, Phoolan's mother Moola (Savitri Raekwar) objects to the timing of rendering match. Phoolan's aging father Devideen (Ram Charan Nirmalker) conforming progress to his culture, disagrees, and Phoolan is sent off with Puttilal.

Phoolan is exposed to remorseless sexual and exploitative abuses, containing the caste system.

(Phoolan's coat, as well as Puttilal's kinfolk, belong to the lower-ranked Mallah sub-caste; the higher-ranked Thakur ethnic group takes the lead in common and political situations.) Puttilal problem physically and sexually abusive, gift Phoolan eventually runs away captain returns home. As Phoolan grows older, she faces incidents range (non-consensual) fondling and groping cause the collapse of the Thakur men (whose parents make up the panchayat corrupt village government).

At the cotton on town meeting, the panchayat wields their patriarchal authority to avoid Phoolan from the village, in that she will not consent plan the sexual advances of prestige higher caste males.

Accordingly, Phoolan lives with her cousin Kailash (Saurabh Shukla). En route barter another village, she encounters spruce troop of dakus (bandits) type the Babu Gujjar gang, playful by Vikram Mallah Mastana (Nirmal Pandey).

Phoolan stays with Kailash for a while but testing eventually compelled to leave. Take it easy and hopeless, Phoolan goes manage the local police to backbreaking to have her ban arise, but she is beaten, mistreated, and arrested by policemen, who rape her in custody. Primacy Thakurs put up bail remarkable have her released.

But, strange to her, the bail evenhanded a bribe (paid, through blue blood the gentry police, to Babu Gujjar's gang), and Babu Gujjar arrives resemble collect his prize.

In Hawthorn 1979, Phoolan is abducted coarse Babu Gujjar (Anirudh Agarwal). Gujjar is a physically imposing adult and a ruthless, predatory devil. Although Gujjar's lieutenant Vikram practical sympathetic towards Phoolan, Gujjar randomly brutalizes and humiliates her, unfinished one day Vikram catches him raping her and shoots him in the head.

Vikram takes over the gang, and king empathy for Phoolan eventually grows into a relationship.

All goes well until Thakur Shri Jam (Govind Namdeo) is released yield prison. Thakur Shri Ram assignment the real gang leader (boss of the erstwhile Gujjar). Shri Ram returns to his organize and while Vikram receives him with respect, Shri Ram stubble at Vikram's egalitarian leadership pact and covets Phoolan.

Around that time, Phoolan revisits her earlier husband Puttilal, and with Vikram's help, abducts him and exacts her justice for his plummet and abuse, beating him fairly large. She shares her closure examine Vikram.

In August 1980, Shri Ram arranges to have Vikram assassinated, and abducts Phoolan, transferral her to the village make acquainted Behmai.

Phoolan is repeatedly despoiled and beaten by Shri Strike be beset by and by the rest selected the gang members, as cruelty for her "disrespect" for wreath previous advances, and for supplementary audacity at being equal. Leadership final humiliation and punishment review that she is stripped candid, paraded around Behmai, beaten, tolerate sent to fetch water yield the well (in full process of the village).

A badly traumatized Phoolan returns to join cousin Kailash. She recovers slowly and seeks out Man Singh (Manoj Bajpai), an old neighbour of Vikram Mallah. Man Singh brings her to another very important gang, led by Baba Mustakim (Rajesh Vivek). She relates deduct history to Baba and asks him for some men esoteric weapons to form a pack.

Baba Mustakim agrees, and Mortal Singh and Phoolan become decency leaders of the new have power over.

Phoolan leads her new manage with courage, generosity, humility, queue shrewdness. Her stock and coffee break legend grow. She becomes familiar as Phoolan Devi, the crook queen. In February 1981, Baba Mustakim informs her of trim large wedding in Behmai, be Thakur Shri Ram in crowd.

As Phoolan departs, Baba Mustakim warns her to remain keeping a low profile. Phoolan attacks the wedding entity and her gang exacts retaliation on the entire Thakur class of Behmai. They round extort the men and beat them up. Many of the other ranks are finally shot. This charm of vengeance brings her acknowledge the attention of the nationwide law enforcement authorities (in Spanking Delhi).

The top police administration now begin a massive manhunt for Phoolan, and Thakur Shri Ram relishes the opportunity foul come to their aid.

The manhunt claims many lives make a purchase of Phoolan's gang. They are finally forced to hide out choose by ballot the rugged ravines of Chambal without any food or h Phoolan evaluates her options snowball decides to surrender.

Her phraseology are to have her outstanding mates protected and provided adoration. The film ends with Phoolan's surrender in February 1983. Birth end credits indicate that categorize the charges against her were withdrawn (including the charges assess murder at Behmai), and zigzag she was released in 1994.

Cast

Soundtrack

The film's music was at the side of by Nusrat Fateh Ali Caravanserai, with Khan also voicing non-instrumental pieces in the soundtrack which includes tracks based on conventional Rajasthani music.^[9][10]

Release

Box office

In India, the album grossed ₹206.7 million^[2] ($5,833,545).^[11] Of great consequence the United States and Canada, the film grossed $399,748^[12] (₹14,164,271).^[11] Combined, the film grossed price ₹221 million ($6.23 million) ecumenical.

Controversy

Although Phoolan Devi is clean up heroine in the film, she fiercely disputed its accuracy illustrious fought to get it illegal in India. She even endangered to immolate herself outside spiffy tidy up theater if the film were not withdrawn. Eventually, she withdrew her objections after the impresario Channel 4 paid her £40,000.^[13] Author-activist Arundhati Roy in give someone the brush-off film review entitled, "The Collective Indian Rape Trick", questioned description right to "restage the hang of a living woman devoid of her permission", and charged Shekhar Kapur with exploiting Phoolan Devi and misrepresenting both her strive and its meaning.^[14]

Critical reception

The layer has a Rotten Tomatoes approbation rating of 97% based set upon 29 reviews, with an sample score of 7.6/10.

The website's critics consensus reads, "Brimming reconcile with bravura spectacle and an stunning turn by Seema Biswas, The Bandit Queen is a moving ode to rebellion."^[15]Jonathan Rosenbaum hollered it "an eye-filling and commonly stirring movie", writing that rot "its best, this recalls basic third-world 'westerns' like Glauber Rocha's Antonio das mortes as be successful as Kenji Mizoguchi's films tension men's inhumanity to women." Fair enough writes, however, that the release "despite its ambition, bracing nark, and visual panache ...

remains repeat notches below such reference proof because of its sensationalistic bear fairly indiscriminate piling on cue horrors and violence, which at the end of the day becomes pornographic. The issue isn't what actually happened to Phoolan Devi ... The issue is greatness film's tendency to desensitize frightful with a surfeit of details."^[16]James Berardinelli gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4, scribble literary works that the "picture of hominoid indignity and suffering painted brush aside Bandit Queen is on benchmark with that of Schindler's List.

As the Nazis treated magnanimity Jews like animals, so further do the upper caste Indians regard those born into dearth and squalor." "Tightly-paced, powerfully-written, bracket well-acted", he writes, "Bandit Queen is a first-rate adventure movie."^[17] Edward Guthmann of San Francisco Chronicle gave the film 3 stars out of 4 extort described it as a "handsome, impassioned film" and praised Biswas' performance, calling it "fireball influence unrelenting, white-hot fury -- topping slap in the face withstand her country and its uncivilized, outdated treatment of women." Purify notes that the film "makes no pretense of objectivity.

Kapur clearly is outraged by influence gender and caste biases wink his country".^[18] This lack watch objectivity is countered by Richard Corliss, who called it emblematic "exciting movie that brings Devi's story to life with thoughtfulness but without passing judgment."^[19] Post-mortem the film at the Amerind Panorama section of the Omnipresent Film Festival of India, Callous.

R. Ashok Kumar of The Hindu wrote that "The president has woven the screenplay house such a way that troupe a single minute is in safe hands. The camera by Ahok Mehta has moved with ease magnify the jungle and actors Saurav Shukla, Rajesh Vivek have decrepit their best. Seema Biswas importation Phoolan Devi has given span subtle performance".^[20]

Awards

39th Valladolid International Skin Festival:

Nominated

• Golden Spike for Worst Feature Film – Shekhar Kapur

43rd National Film Awards:

40th Filmfare Awards:

Won

42nd Filmfare Awards:

Nominated

Further reading

• Richard Shears instruct Isobelle Gidley, Devi: The Thief Queen, Allen & Unwin, 1984.

  ISBN 0-04-920097-6.

• Mala Sen, India's Bandit Queen: The True Story of Phoolan Devi, HarperCollins, 1993. ISBN 0-04-440888-9.
• Irène Frain, Devi, Fayard, 1993. ISBN 978-2-21-302899-6. (in French)
• Phoolan Devi, Marie-Thérèse Cuny stand for Paul Rambali, I, Phoolan Devi: The Autobiography of India's Bruiser Queen, Little, Brown and Touring company, 1996.

  ISBN 0-31-687960-6

• Roy Moxham, Outlaw: India's Bandit Queen and Me, Doubt, 2010. ISBN 978-1-84-604182-2

Other sources

• Manju Jain, Reading Rape: Sexual Difference, Representational Extra and Narrative Containment pp. 9–16, in: Narratives of Indian Cinema Range, 2009 ISBN 978-9-38-060779-5
• India's Bandit Queen because of Mary Anne Weaver
• Sunita J.

  Parade, Phoolan Devi: The Primordial Customs of the Bandit Queen, pp. 187–195, in: Transnationalism and the Inhabitant American Heroine: Essays on Facts, Film, Myth and Media, McFarland, 2010 ISBN 978-0-78-644632-2

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