Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- India, United Kingdom
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- In Hindi — subtitles on.
The story
Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and brutalized, Phoolan Devi finds freedom only as an avenging warrior, the eponymous Bandit Queen. Devi becomes a kind a bloody Robin Hood; this extraordinary biographical film offers both a vivid portrait of a driven woman and a savage critique of the society that made her.
- guerrilla warfare
- 1970s
- biography
- poverty
- bandit
- militant
- social issues
- 1960s
The bill
- Aditya Srivastava — Puttilal
- Manoj Bajpayee — Man Singh
- Ranjit Chowdhry — Shiv Narain
- Harish Kumar — Tarika
- Govind Namdeo — SriRam
- Hemant Pandey — Ashokchand's Friend
- Sitaram Panchal — Lalaram
- Lakshmi — Poolan / Man Singh Gang
- Gajraj Rao — Ashokchand
- Saurabh Shukla — Kailash
- Anupam Shyam — Ganshyam
- Directed
- Shekhar Kapur
- Written
- Mala Sen
Production
- Rating
- 6.6 / 10 · 65 ratings
- Studio
- Kaleidoscope Productions, Kaleidoscope Entertainment, Film4 Productions
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