“As its story portrays a cycle of dehumanizing violence, the film also shapes a deeply disturbing vision of female servitude in caste-ridden rural India…Makes the anger of Thelma and Louise look like playground stuff.” Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle The 1994 film Bandit Queen, made around the time of her release from jail, is loosely based on her life until that point.“A handsome, impassioned film by Indian director Shekhar Kapur…gorgeous photography, strong production values, and urgent social criticism.” In 2001, Phoolan was shot dead at her official residence, allotted to her as an MP, in the Indian capital New Delhi. On February 15, 1995, she and her husband embraced Buddhism at the famous Buddhist site Deekshabhoomi. She then contested election to Parliament as a candidate of the Samajwadi Party and was twice elected to the Lok Sabha as the member from the Mirzapur constituency. In 1994, the state government withdrew all charges against her, and Phoolan was released from the jail.
She was charged with 48 crimes, including multiple murders, plunder, arson and kidnapping for ransom. Phoolan evaded arrest for two years after the massacre before she and her few surviving gang-members surrendered to the neighbouring Madhya Pradesh state police in 1983. This became one of the most sensational mass murders in India. Her gang shot 22 men of the Rajput community of Behmai.
She decided to avenge Behmai, where she had been gang-raped earlier. She took a new lover from the gang and became a leader of the gang.
Phoolan escaped from Behmai and rejoined the remnants of her dead lover’s faction, who were from the Mallaah (boatmen) community. The victorious rival faction took Phoolan who was to their village, Behmai, and raped her repeatedly over several weeks. Her relationship with one gang member, coupled with the caste difference, caused a gunfight in which Phoolan's lover was killed. Phoolan was the only woman member of the gang. Having developed major differences with her parents and her husband, the teenage Phoolan escaped from home and joined a gang of bandits. Phoolan Devi, known as the Bandit Queen, was a bandit who surrendered to police, spent years in jail and was later elected to the Indian Parliament.īorn into a poor family in rural Uttar Pradesh (UP), Phoolan endured poverty and child marriage, which turned abusive.
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