Bandit Queen

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.

Director: Shekhar Kapur

Cast: Seema Biswas, Nirmal Pandey, Rajesh Vivek, Raghubir Yadav, Aditya Srivastava, Manoj Bajpayee, Ranjit Chowdhry, Harish Kumar

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.