Bandit Queen (1994)
Note: this print runs 103 minutes against a recorded 116 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Seema Biswas, Nirmal Pandey, Aditya Shrivastava, Gajraj Rao, Saurabh Shukla, Manoj Bajpai, Raghubir Yadav, Rajesh Vivek
Directed by Shekhar Kapur
Bandit Queen is a 1994 Indian Hindi-language biographical action-adventure film 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. It was directed by Shekhar Kapur and starred Seema Biswas as the title character. The music was composed by 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. The film was selected as the Indian entry for the Best Foreign
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