Phoolan Devi is a 1985 Bengali action movie directed by Ashok Roy and produced by Rajeev Kaul. This movie was loosely based on the life of Indian bandit turned politician Phoolan Devi. The film was released in Hindi under the name Kahani Phoolvati Ki'. Popular hero of the Bollywood movies, Joy Mukherjee played the role of main antagonist.

Plot

Young Phoolan is forced to marry Puttilal, an old man, by her parents. Puttilal other wife tortures Phoolan. One day Phoolan meets with her close friend Meena who has turned into bandit having suffered atrocities at the hands of the Thakur brothers. Bikram Mallah, a trusted hand of Thakurs protests such inhuman activities of them. Whilst those brothers attack on Phoolan, Bikram stops them and took charge of the Thakur's gang forcefully. Subsequently, he married Phoolan. Thakur brothers took revenge to kill Bikram and raped Phoolan. They tagged her mercilessly and few villagers gang raped her in all day long. Escaping from their hand Phoolan made her own gang and became Dakait (Decoit) leader. Thereafter she killed all the rapists one by one including two Thakur brothers.

Phoolan Devi (film)

Cast

Rita Bhaduri as Phoolan Devi

Suresh Oberoi as Bikram Mallah

Joy Mukherjee as Bada Thakur

Prema Narayan as Meena

Goga Kapoor as Meena's Husband / Police Informer

Asit Kumar Sen

Manik Dutt

Tarun Ghosh

References

1985 films

Bengali-language Indian films

Indian action drama films

1980s Bengali-language films

1980s feminist films

Indian films based on actual events

Films based on real people

Indian biographical drama films

Indian crime drama films

Indian feminist films

Films about organised crime in India

Films about rape in India

Indian rape and revenge films

Films about the caste system in India

Films about women in India

Cultural depictions of robbers

Cultural depictions of Indian women

Films about outlaws

Indian films about revenge

1980s action drama films

1980s biographical drama films

1985 crime drama films

External links

Phoolan Devi (film)