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{{Short description|1994 film by Shekhar Kapur}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Bandit Queen
| image = Bandit Queen poster.jpg
| caption = Film poster
| director = [[Shekhar Kapur]]
| writer = [[Mala Sen]]
| based_on = {{based on|''India's Bandit Queen: The True Story of Phoolan Devi''|Mala Sen}}
| producer = Bobby Bedi
| starring = {{plainlist|
* [[Seema Biswas]]
* [[Nirmal Pandey]]}}
| cinematography = [[Ashok Mehta]]
| editing = [[Renu Saluja]]
| music = [[Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan]]
| studio = [[Kaleidoscope Entertainment]]<br />[[Film4 Productions|Film Four International]]
| distributor = [[Amitabh Bachchan Corporation]]<ref>{{cite web|title=On With The Offbeat|website=[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]]|date=20 November 1995 |access-date=30 September 2023|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/art-entertainment/on-with-the-offbeat-news-200282}}</ref>
| released = {{film date|1994|1|26 |df=yes}}
| runtime = 119 minutes
| country = India
| language = Hindi
| budget = {{INR|32.5 million}}<ref name="auto">{{cite web |title=Bandit Queen - Movie |url=https://boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=2827 |website=[[Box Office India]] |access-date=15 January 2019 |archive-date=17 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190117070014/https://boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=2827 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| gross = {{Estimation}} {{INR|221 million}} ([[#Box office|see{{nbsp}}below]])
}}
'''''Bandit Queen''''' is a 1994 Indian [[Hindi]]-language [[biographical film|biographical]] [[action-adventure film]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/30/movies/film-review-true-story-of-modern-legend.html|title=FILM REVIEW; True Story Of Modern Legend|website=[[The New York Times]]|date=30 June 1995|quote=Shekhar Kapur's movie biography, based on Miss Devi's prison diaries, is a rip-roaring action-adventure film that defies credibility despite its truth.|archive-date=27 July 2022|access-date=27 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220727154141/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/30/movies/film-review-true-story-of-modern-legend.html|url-status=live}}</ref> 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]].<ref name="guardiansenobituary">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jun/13/mala-sen-obituary|title=Mala Sen obituary|author=Kotak, Ash|newspaper=The Guardian|date=13 June 2011|access-date=10 November 2016|archive-date=11 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161111000231/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jun/13/mala-sen-obituary|url-status=live}}</ref> It was directed by [[Shekhar Kapur]] and starred [[Seema Biswas]] as the title character. The music was composed by [[Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan|Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan]]. 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 film premiered in the Directors' Fortnight section of the [[1994 Cannes Film Festival]], and was screened at the [[Edinburgh Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/bollywood/news/a383899/anurag-kashyap-the-perception-of-india-cinema-is-changing.html#~oT14wSijkj0Kkw|title=Anurag Kashyap: 'The perception of India cinema is changing'|work=Digital Spy|date=28 May 2012|access-date=18 October 2014|archive-date=17 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017124100/http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/bollywood/news/a383899/anurag-kashyap-the-perception-of-india-cinema-is-changing.html#~oT14wSijkj0Kkw|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/theDailyArticle/57637.html|title=Shekhar Kapur, exclusive interview|work=Festival de Cannes|date=18 May 2010|access-date=18 October 2014|archive-date=28 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150928201638/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/theDailyArticle/57637.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The film was selected as the Indian entry for the [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]] at the [[67th Academy Awards]], but was not accepted as a nominee.<ref>Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences</ref>

== Plot ==
The film opens in the summer of 1968 in a small village in Uttar Pradesh.<ref>Let us Know Something About It In Detail. The real-life Phoolan Devi was born in 1963 and was married when she was about 11. See [[Phoolan Devi]] for more details</ref> Phoolan is married to a 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 the match. Phoolan's aging father Devideen (Ram Charan Nirmalker), conforming to his culture, disagrees, and Phoolan is sent off with Puttilal.

Phoolan is exposed to some sexual and exploitative abuses, including the [[caste system]]. (Phoolan's family, as well as Puttilal's family, belong to the lower-ranked [[Mallaah|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. As Phoolan grows older, she faces incidents of (non-consensual) fondling and groping from the [[Rajput|Thakur]] men (whose parents make up the ''[[Panchayati raj in India|panchayat]]'' or village government). At the next town meeting, the ''panchayat'' wields their patriarchal authority to banish Phoolan from the village, since she will not consent to the sexual advances of the higher caste males.

Accordingly, Phoolan lives with her cousin Kailash ([[Saurabh Shukla]]). En route to another village, she encounters a troop of [[Dacoity|''daku'']]s (bandits) of the Babu Gujjar gang, led by Vikram Mallah Mastana ([[Nirmal Pandey]]). Phoolan stays with Kailash for a while but is eventually compelled to leave. Angry and hopeless, Phoolan goes to the local police to try to have her ban lifted, but she is beaten, molested, and arrested by policemen, who rape her in custody. The Thakurs put up bail and have her released. But, unknown to her, the bail is a bribe (paid, through the police, to Babu Gujjar's gang), and Babu Gujjar arrives to collect his prize.

In May 1979, Phoolan is abducted by Babu Gujjar ([[Anirudh Agarwal]]). Gujjar is a physically imposing man and a ruthless, predatory mercenary. Although Gujjar's lieutenant Vikram is sympathetic towards Phoolan, Gujjar indiscriminately brutalizes and humiliates her, until one day Vikram catches him raping her and shoots him in the head. Vikram takes over the gang, and his empathy for Phoolan eventually grows into a relationship.

All goes well until Thakur Shri Ram ([[Govind Namdeo]]) is released from prison. Thakur Shri Ram is the real gang leader (boss of the erstwhile Gujjar). Shri Ram returns to his gang and while Vikram receives him with respect, Shri Ram bristles at Vikram's egalitarian leadership style and covets Phoolan. Around this time, Phoolan revisits her former husband Puttilal, and with Vikram's help, abducts him and exacts her justice for his rape and abuse, beating him up. She shares her closure with Vikram.

In August 1980, Shri Ram arranges to have Vikram assassinated, and abducts Phoolan, bringing her to the village of Behmai. Phoolan is repeatedly raped and beaten by Shri Ram and by the rest of the gang members, as punishment for her "disrespect" for his previous advances, and for her audacity at being equal. The final humiliation and punishment is that she is stripped naked, paraded around Behmai, beaten, and sent to fetch water from the well (in full view of the village).

A severely traumatized Phoolan returns to her cousin Kailash. She recovers gradually and seeks out Man Singh ([[Manoj Bajpai]]), an old friend of Vikram Mallah. Man Singh brings her to another large gang, led by Baba Mustakim ([[Rajesh Vivek]]). She relates her history to Baba and asks him for some men and weapons to form a gang. Baba Mustakim agrees, and Man Singh and Phoolan become the leaders of the new gang.

Phoolan leads her new gang with courage, generosity, humility, and shrewdness. Her stock and her legend grow. She becomes known as Phoolan Devi, the bandit queen. In February 1981, Baba Mustakim informs her of a large wedding in Behmai, with Thakur Shri Ram in attendance. As Phoolan departs, Baba Mustakim warns her to remain low-key. Phoolan attacks the wedding party and her gang exacts revenge on the entire Thakur clan of Behmai. They round up the men and beat them up. Many of the men are finally shot. This act of vengeance brings her to the attention of the national law enforcement authorities (in New Delhi). The top police officials now begin a massive manhunt for Phoolan, and Thakur Shri Ram relishes the opportunity to come to their aid.

The manhunt claims many lives in Phoolan's gang. They are ultimately forced to hide out in the rugged ravines of Chambal without any food or water. Phoolan evaluates her options and decides to surrender. Her terms are to have her remaining mates protected and provided for. The film ends with Phoolan's surrender in February 1983. The end credits indicate that all the charges against her were withdrawn (including the charges of murder at Behmai), and that she was released in 1994.

==Cast==
*[[Seema Biswas]] as [[Phoolan Devi]]
*[[Nirmal Pandey]] as Vikram Mallah
*[[Aditya Srivastava]] as Puttilal
*[[Gajraj Rao (actor)|Gajraj Rao]] as Ashok Chand Thakur (Sarpanch's son)
*[[Saurabh Shukla]] as Kailash
*[[Manoj Bajpayee]] as Maan Singh
*[[Raghuvir Yadav]] as Madho
*[[Rajesh Vivek]] as Baba Mustakim
*[[Anirudh Agarwal]] as Babu Gujjar
*[[Govind Namdev]] as Thakur Shri Ram
*[[Jeetu Shastri]] as Bharat
*[[Shekhar Kapur]] as a Lorry driver (cameo appearance)

== Soundtrack ==
{{Infobox album
| name = Bandit Queen
| type = film
| artist = [[Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan]]
| released = {{Start date|1995}}
| genre = [[Filmi]], [[Hindustani classical music|Hindustani classical]]
| length = {{Duration|h=1|m=16}}
| label = [[Oriental Star Agencies]] <br /> Big B Music
| producer = Roger White
}}
The film's music was composed by [[Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan]], with Khan also voicing non-instrumental pieces in the soundtrack which includes tracks based on traditional [[Music of Rajasthan|Rajasthani music]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Bandit Queen (1994) |url=http://myswar.co/album/bandit-queen-1994 |website=MySwar |access-date=6 October 2021 |archive-date=6 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006012755/http://myswar.co/album/bandit-queen-1994 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=Bandit Queen, Vol. 51|date=1995-01-01|url=https://open.spotify.com/album/3rp2nyZuAQHgBfNMFeH20y|work=[[Spotify]]|language=en|access-date=}}.</ref>
{{Track listing
| headline = Bandit Queen
| title1 = Sanware Tore Bin Jiya
| length1 = 6:55
| title2 = Sajna Tere Bina
| length2 = 6:53
| title3 = More Saiyaan To Hai Pardes
| length3 = 8:01
| title4 = Welcome Phoolan
| length4 = 0:48
| title5 = Opening
| length5 = 1:56
| title6 = Out of Water, Into Marriage
| length6 = 0:53
| title7 = Child Bride
| length7 = 3:08
| title8 = Child Rape
| length8 = 3:07
| title9 = Phoolan & Vikram Eye to Eye
| length9 = 1:28
| title10 = What I Am Here For
| length10 = 3:25
| title11 = City Love Making
| length11 = 1:48
| title12 = Washing At the River Bank
| length12 = 1:17
| title13 = Village Court
| length13 = 1:36
| title14 = Re-Opening
| length14 = 1:18
| title15 = Into the Hills
| length15 = 1:21
| title16 = The Quiet
| length16 = 1:44
| title17 = The Passion
| length17 = 2:48
| title18 = Chottie See
| length18 = 1:14
| title19 = Re-Opening By the River
| length19 = 1:52
| title20 = Chottie See 2
| length20 = 3:54
| title21 = Phoolan's Revenge
| length21 = 2:32
| title22 = Hillside Drums
| length22 = 1:16
| title23 = Death to the Bandit
| length23 = 0:42
| title24 = Red Bandana
| length24 = 1:22
| title25 = Janmanchpur
| length25 = 1:33
| title26 = Preparation
| length26 = 5:08
| title27 = Behmai
| length27 = 1:19
| title28 = Funeral Pyres
| length28 = 1:56
| title29 = The Surrender of Phoolan
| length29 = 4:52
| total_length = 1:16:00
}}

==Release==
===Box office===
In India, the film grossed {{INR|206.7 million}}<ref name="auto"/> ({{US$|{{#expr:206700000/35.433 round 0}}|long=no}}).<ref name="currency">{{cite web |title=Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average) |url=https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/PA.NUS.FCRF?end=1994&locations=IN&start=1995 |website=[[World Bank]] |year=1994 |access-date=15 January 2019}}</ref> In the United States and Canada, the film grossed $399,748<ref>{{cite web |title=Bandit Queen (1995) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=banditqueen.htm |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=15 January 2019 |archive-date=17 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190117070016/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=banditqueen.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> ({{INR|{{#expr:399748*35.433 round 0}}|link=no}}).<ref name="currency"/> Combined, the film grossed approximately {{INR|{{#expr:206.7+14.164271 round 0}} million}} ({{US$|{{#expr:5.833545+0.399748 round 2}} million|long=no}}) worldwide.

===Controversy===
Although Phoolan Devi is a heroine in the film, she fiercely disputed its accuracy and fought to get it banned in India. She even threatened to [[self-immolation|immolate]] herself outside a theater if the film were not withdrawn. Eventually, she withdrew her objections after the producer [[Channel 4]] paid her £40,000.<ref name="Telegraph_Mala_201105">{{cite web | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/8546445/Mala-Sen.html | title = Obituaries: Mala Sen | work = The Telegraph | date = 2011-05-30 | access-date = 2011-11-28 | archive-date = 21 September 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220921203614/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/8546445/Mala-Sen.html | url-status = live }}</ref> Author-activist [[Arundhati Roy]] in her film review entitled, "The Great Indian Rape Trick", questioned the right to "restage the rape of a living woman without her permission", and charged Shekhar Kapur with exploiting Phoolan Devi and misrepresenting both her life and its meaning.<ref>[http://www.sawnet.org/books/writing/roy_bq1.html The Great Indian Rape-Trick] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414182145/http://www.sawnet.org/books/writing/roy_bq1.html |date=14 April 2016 }} @ SAWNET -The South Asian Women's NETwork , Retrieved 25 November 2011.</ref>

===Critical reception===
The film has a [[Rotten Tomatoes]] approval rating of 97% based on 29 reviews, with an average score of 7.6/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Brimming with bravura spectacle and an arresting turn by Seema Biswas, ''The Bandit Queen'' is a galvanizing ode to rebellion."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bandit_queen|title=Bandit Queen (1995)|date=30 June 1995|publisher=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=23 March 2019|archive-date=4 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201004162234/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bandit_queen|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Jonathan Rosenbaum]] called it "an eye-filling and often stirring movie", writing that at "its best, this recalls radical third-world '[[Western (genre)|westerns]]' like [[Glauber Rocha]]'s [[Antonio das Mortes|Antonio das mortes]] as well as [[Kenji Mizoguchi]]'s films about men's inhumanity to women." He writes, however, that the film "despite its ambition, bracing anger, and visual panache ... remains many notches below such reference points because of its sensationalistic and fairly indiscriminate piling on of horrors and violence, which ultimately becomes pornographic. The issue isn't what actually happened to Phoolan Devi ... The issue is the film's tendency to desensitize us with a surfeit of details."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/bandit-queen/Film?oid=1072328|title=Bandit Queen|first=Jonathan|last=Rosenbaum|website=Chicago Reader|date=26 October 1985 }}</ref> [[James Berardinelli]] gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4, writing that the "picture of human indignity and suffering painted by ''Bandit Queen'' is on par with that of ''[[Schindler's List]]''. As the [[Nazis]] treated the [[Jews]] like animals, so too do the upper caste Indians regard those born into poverty and squalor." "Tightly-paced, powerfully-written, and well-acted", he writes, "''Bandit Queen'' is a first-rate adventure movie."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reelviews.net/reelviews/bandit-queen|title=Bandit Queen|first=James|last=Berardinelli|website=Reelviews Movie Reviews}}</ref> Edward Guthmann of ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' gave the film 3 stars out of 4 and described it as a "handsome, impassioned film" and praised Biswas' performance, calling it "fireball of unrelenting, white-hot fury -- a slap in the face to her country and its barbaric, outdated treatment of women." He notes that the film "makes no pretense of objectivity. Kapur clearly is outraged by the gender and caste biases of his country".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/FILM-REVIEW-India-s-Bandit-Queen-Gets-Even-3029188.php|title=Film Review -- India's 'Bandit Queen' Gets Even|first1=Edward|last1=Guthmann|date=7 July 1995|website=SFGate}}</ref> This lack of objectivity is countered by [[Richard Corliss]], who called it an "exciting movie that brings Devi's story to life with passion but without passing judgment."<ref>''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''. January 1, 2000.</ref> Reviewing the film at the Indian Panorama section of the [[International Film Festival of India]], S. R. Ashok Kumar of ''[[The Hindu]]'' wrote that "The director has woven the screenplay in such a way that not a single minute is dull. The camera by Ahok Mehta has moved with ease in the jungle and actors Saurav Shukla, Rajesh Vivek have done their best. Seema Biswas as Phoolan Devi has given a subtle performance".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.webpage.com/hindu/960113/03/1226a.html|title=The cream of Indian cinema|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=12 January 1996|page=26|first=S. R. Ashok|last=Kumar|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961221151607/http://www.webpage.com/hindu/960113/03/1226a.html|archive-date=21 December 1996}}</ref>

== Awards ==
'''[[Valladolid International Film Festival|39th Valladolid International Film Festival]]''':

'''Nominated'''

* Golden Spike for Best Feature Film – Shekhar Kapur

;'''[[43rd National Film Awards]]:'''
* [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi|Best Feature Film in Hindi]] – Kaleidoscope Entertainment
* [[National Film Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] – [[Seema Biswas]]
* [[National Film Award for Best Costume Design|Best Costume Design]] – [[Dolly Ahluwalia]]

; [[40th Filmfare Awards]]<nowiki>:</nowiki>

'''Won'''

* [[Filmfare Critics Award for Best Film|Best Film (Critics)]] – [[Shekhar Kapur]]

'''[[42nd Filmfare Awards]]:'''

* [[Filmfare Award for Best Director|Best Director]] – Shekhar Kapur
* [[Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut|Best Female Debut]] – [[Seema Biswas]]
* [[Filmfare Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]] – [[Ashok Mehta]]

'''Nominated'''

* [[Filmfare Award for Best Film|Best Film]] – Kaleidoscope Entertainment
* [[Filmfare Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] – Seema Biswas

==Further reading==
* Richard Shears and Isobelle Gidley, ''Devi: The Bandit 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 language|French]])
* Phoolan Devi, Marie-Thérèse Cuny and Paul Rambali, ''I, Phoolan Devi: The Autobiography of India's Bandit Queen'', [[Little, Brown and Company]], 1996. {{ISBN|0-31-687960-6}}
* Roy Moxham, ''Outlaw: India's Bandit Queen and Me'', Rider, 2010. {{ISBN|978-1-84-604182-2}}

=== Other sources ===
* Manju Jain, [https://du-in.academia.edu/KarenGabriel/Papers/922265/Reading_Rape_Sexual_Difference_Representational_Excess_and_Narrative_Containment ''Reading Rape: Sexual Difference, Representational Excess and Narrative Containment''] pp. 9–16, in: ''Narratives of Indian Cinema'' Primus, 2009 {{ISBN|978-9-38-060779-5}}
* ''[https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/199611/bandit-queen India's Bandit Queen]'' by Mary Anne Weaver
* Sunita J. Peacock, [https://books.google.com/books?id=A786X6Zyz3cC ''Phoolan Devi: The Primordial Tradition of the Bandit Queen''], pp. 187–195, in: ''Transnationalism and the Asian American Heroine: Essays on Literature, Film, Myth and Media'', [[McFarland & Company|McFarland]], 2010 {{ISBN|978-0-78-644632-2}}

==See also==
*[[List of films with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes]]
*[[List of Indian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film]]
*[[List of submissions to the 67th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film]]
*[[Phoolan Devi (film)|''Phoolan Devi (1985 film)'']]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
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*{{Rotten Tomatoes|2=Bandit Queen}}
* {{cite book
| date = 3 June 2010
| title = Outlaw: India's Bandit Queen and Me
| last = Moxham
| first = Roy
| publisher = [[Rider (imprint)|Rider]]
| isbn = 978-1-84604-182-2
}}

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