And while director Shekhar Kapur doesn't graphically depict the frequent assaults Devi endures, he does not flinch from the sordid material either.ĭevi is a flat-chested stripling (Sunita Bhatt) with an already well-developed contempt for men when her life takes its first terrible turn. Set in a remote corner of India, the film is a veritable catalogue of mental and physical abuse, including pedophilia and gang rape. Based on Devi's diaries, this powerful but grueling Indian film is not only a tribute to her spirit, but also a searing indictment of a culture corrupted by the caste system and degraded by chauvinism. A low-born Hindu woman becomes a folk heroine when she turns on her upper-caste abusers in "The Bandit Queen," a brutal biography of famed outlaw Phoolan Devi.
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