On release, the film received broad critical acclaim at the BFI London Film Festival, winning the National Film Award for Best National Integration Feature Film and that year’s National Film Award for Best Production Design. The film portrays the life of Indian freedom leader Subhas Chandra Bose in Nazi Germany: 1941–1943, the events that led to the founding of Azad Hind Fauj and Japanese-occupied Asia 1943–1945. The movie featured an ensemble cast of Sachin Khedekar, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Rajit Kapur, Arif Zakaria, and Divya Dutta. Khedekar had been praised for his performance at his release. Sachin Khedekar took on the protagonist’s position. The film, directed by Shyam Benegal, is based upon Subash Chandra Bose’s life. How Phoolan Devi became an icon is not hard to understand her story - as a woman, and particularly as a poor, low-caste woman - is stunning and unique but also tragically paradigmatic. The film won the National Award for Best Film and is regarded as one of the finest biopics. Raised in 1963 to a low-caste household in a village on the banks of the holy Yamuna River in the vast northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, by the time of her surrender, Phoolan Devi was wanted on 22 charges of murder and another 26 counts of kidnapping and looting.Īt the age of 31, after a decade in jail, she became the subject of a major Bollywood film, Bandit Queen, which she criticized and which, as Arundhati Roy pointed out in a two-part evisceration called The Great Indian Rape Trick, calcified into agreed reality a controversial version of her life (and its meaning).
This 1994 Shekhar Kapur-directed film, one of the earliest biopics to come out of Hindi cinema, is unlike most of the films made in this country, as it gives a genuine, brutal and unflinching look at the life of bandit Phoolan Devi.
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