Bandit Queen
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Bandit Queen |
| Country of production |
India United Kingdom |
| original language | Hindi |
| Publishing year | 1994 |
| length | 116 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Shekhar Kapur |
| script |
Mala Sen (screenplay) Ranjit Kapoor (dialogues) |
| production | Sundeep Singh Bedi |
| music | Nutrat Fateh Ali Khan |
| camera | Ashok Mehta |
| cut | Renu Saluja |
| occupation | |
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Bandit Queen is a 1994 Hindi film directed by Shekhar Kapur .
action
At the age of eleven, Phoolan Devi was forced to marry 35-year-old Putti Lal from her impoverished, low- caste parents in the north Indian city of Uttar Pradesh . After being raped for the first time by her husband, she grows into a world of violence that is dominated by the upper caste minority of the village and during which Phoolan Devi has to survive daily humiliation and beatings. After several group rapes by villagers and police officers, she is driven out of the village naked. She is taken in by the bandits of Man Singh, and with her future husband Vikram Mallah she avenges the injustice suffered by the relatives of the lower castes and also takes revenge on her tormentors. After the death of men from higher castes in Behmai, perceived as a massacre, Phoolan Devi is branded a terrorist, searched nationwide for three years and unsuccessfully hunted by the police and the army. Amid applause from thousands of people, Phoolan Devi publicly surrendered to Arjun Singh , then Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh .
background
On February 12, 1983, Phoolan Devi and the surviving Dacoits of the Poolan Singh gang surrendered to the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh - previously announced publicly, on a stage in front of a portrait of Durga and a picture of Mohandas Gandhi after a contract had been negotiated who guaranteed her eight years in prison and land for her family. Phoolan Devi was only released in February 1994 after spending eleven years in Indian prisons without trial and pardoned because of cancer.
Phoolan Devi earned herself the reputation of an avenger for the injustice suffered by members of the lower castes in India between 1980 and 1983 as the “bandit queen” . Equipped with the attributes of the goddess Kali and the fear of a wider heroization by the population, the Indian government offered her impunity . After its surrender in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, the government of the neighboring state of Uttar Pradesh, under the leadership of high-class politicians, refused to dismiss the lawsuits against the alleged "murderer of Behmai". After her election to the Lok Sabha Samajwadi Party (1996-1999), Phoolan Devi probably fell victim to the blood revenge of the residents of Behmai on July 25, 2001 in New Delhi.
Shekhar Kapur announced at the first showing of Bandit Queen in India in August 1994 that the film was based on Mala Sen's biography "Bandit Queen" about Phoolan Devi . Kapur's final version of the film was made against the will of Phoolan Devi and was vehemently criticized from various quarters, not only because of his excessive portrayal of violence and the nude shots of Manoj Bajpayee and the rapes depicted in the film . The writer and feminist Arundhati Roy criticized Kapur's "exploitative use of the material and his ignorance of Phoolan Devi" as early as 1994.
Outside of India, Bandit Queen was first shown on September 9, 1994 at the Toronto International Film Festival .
As early as 1984, the story of Phoolan Devi was filmed as a Bengali film directed by Ashok Roy with the title Phoolan Devi .
Awards (selection)
- 1995: Filmfare Awards , Shekhar Kapur for Best Film Critics
- 1996: National Film Award , Silver Lotus Award for Seema Biswas as Best Actress
- 1997: Filmfare Awards, Shekhar Kapur for Best Director
Reviews
“The dramatization of the authentic case is nothing more than a trivial robber's pistol, which is exhausted in the representation of sex and violence. The simple dramaturgy with its stereotypical characters does not do justice to human tragedy in any way. "
"The newcomer Seema Biswas gives a performance of great intensity and conviction in the lead role."
literature
- Bandit Queen . In: Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , 1999, p. 517
Web links
- Bandit Queen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c India's «bandit queen» Phoolan Devi killed . Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 27, 2001. Retrieved April 11, 2014.
- ↑ Hindi for “bandit”, “armed robber”.
- ↑ a b Arundhati Roy : Arundhati Roy on Shekhar Kapur's Bandit Queen: The Great Indian Rape Trick I . sawnet.org. August 22, 1994. Archived from the original on April 14, 2016. Retrieved on April 11, 2014.
- ↑ Arundhati Roy: Arundhati Roy on Shekhar Kapur's Bandit Queen: The Great Indian Rape-Trick II . sawnet.org. September 23, 1994. Archived from the original on April 15, 2016. Retrieved on April 11, 2014.
- ↑ Bandit Queen. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 28, 2017 .