Bandit Queen (1994) 7/13 by Shekhar Kapur, protagonist Seema Biswas

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Bandit Queen is a 1994 Bollywood film based upon the life of Phoolan Devi. It was directed by Shekhar Kapur and starred Seema Biswas as the title character. It was produced Bobby Bedi's Kaleidoscope Entertainment. The film opens in the summer of 1968 at a small village in Uttar Pradesh. Phoolan, eleven years old (played by Sunita Bhatt) [1], is married to a twenty-something fellow called Puttilal (Aditya Shrivastava). Though child marriages are customary during that time, Phoolan's mother ...