The read
A Balasaur Score of 79 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.5/10, Rotten Tomatoes 96%. Critics rate it 21 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 98% of the 1,032 1990s action movies in this catalog. Streaming on Tubi.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes96%
Critics rate it 21 points higher than audiences do.
65 audience votes
Key crew
- Shekhar KapurDirector
- Mala SenScreenplay
- Nusrat Fateh Ali KhanOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Seema BiswasPhoolan Devi
- Nirmal PandeyVikram Mallah
- Rajesh VivekMustaquim
- Raghubir YadavMadho
- Aditya SrivastavaPuttilal
- Manoj BajpayeeMan Singh
- Ranjit ChowdhryShiv Narain
- Harish KumarTarika
- Govind NamdeoSriRam
- Hemant PandeyAshokchand's Friend
- Sitaram PanchalLalaram
- LakshmiPoolan / Man Singh Gang
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