The Extended Canon
Bandit Queen
बैंडिट क्वीन · 1994
Phoolan Devi's life from child marriage to Behmai, filmed with a refusal to soften anything. Fought censorship for years.
- Director
- Shekhar Kapur
- Year
- 1994
- Genre
- Biography · Crime
- Cast
- Seema Biswas, Nirmal Pandey, Manoj Bajpayee
Why it's in the canon
Cannes Directors' Fortnight. Seema Biswas gives one of the fiercest debuts in world cinema.
Phoolan Devi's life from child marriage to Behmai, filmed with a refusal to soften anything. Fought censorship for years.
Bandit Queen sits in the 1990s alongside Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and Satya — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Shekhar Kapur — also responsible for Mr. India, Masoom.
- Released in 1994, in the 1990s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Biography, Crime.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Bandit Queen (1994) · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one
Editorial Inclusion in the extended canon, unranked — not a measurement · last revised 9 August 2026 · signed by Amit Sharma · the scoring is published in full so the machinery can be argued with, not just the result
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