This movie is based (loosely) on Mala Sen's biography of the same name. And one version is Shekhar Kapur's magnum opus. The tale has been documented and redocumented with several versions available for various palates. She took justice and her destiny into her own hands, and boldly went where no dalit woman had gone before. Tormented by the interminable brutalities imposed on her by the high-class thakurs, the woman evolved from a brash teenager and a woman cruelly humiliated to the dreaded Bandit Queen as she was universally known, in an extraordinary life. Phoolan's life is a gruesome example of the inhumanities suffered by the lower castes in rural India. The lady liked to think that she was Kali maata incarnate, and today a whole nation agrees. With the power to hold an entire government at ransom and the strength to sway the emotions of a million low caste Indians, Phoolan was the quintessential phoenix rising from the ashes.
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