“The most realistic and politically challenging film ever made about caste.” The Guardian
Based on the life of Phoolan Devi, India’s most feared outlaw, director Shekhar Kapur’s controversial masterwork is a brutal tale of caste oppression that features a haunting performance by Seema Biswas. With cinematography by the legendary Ashok Mehta, editing by Renu Saluja and a score by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Bandit Queen fuses the Western, melodrama and dacoit (“bandit”) film into a stirring narrative of feminist resistance.