Bandit Queen

great surprising movie for a poerful character and a powerful actor as well... Full review

A True must see....step outside the norm and prepare to be shocked. This is a brilliant telling of the story of Poolahn Devi. I saw this film overseas I just figured it was a bigger realease. Hard to believe this film... Full review

A True must see....step outside the norm and prepare to be shocked. This is a brilliant telling of the story of Poolahn Devi. I saw this film overseas I just figured it was a bigger realease. Hard to believe this film... Full review

I loved this movie when I saw it. Later I heard that Phoolan Devi hated it, so as a universal story it was good, but as history, there are questions.... Full review

I loved this movie when I saw it. Later I heard that Phoolan Devi hated it, so as a universal story it was good, but as history, there are questions.... Full review

For Simran it's her career best performance and even puts to shade Seema Biswas who played Phoolan Devi in Bandit Queen. Backed by powerful performances by Simran in the title role the film leaves a long lasting impact on the viewers mind. ... Full Review

As it tells Devi's incredible story, Bandit Queen is an extraordinary portrait, complicated, dire, and riveting. Later scenes (including repeated assaults on Devi, as well as her gang rape after she has become renowned as the "Bandit Queen") are equally upsetting, and inspired controversy on the film's initial release; temporarily banned by Indian censors and decried by traditionalists worldwide, it also prompted Devi's own lawsuit in an effort to prevent its release, as well as frequent theatergoer walk-o ... Full Review

Bandit Queen" is an astonishing, overpowering piece of rabble-rousing, consciousness-raising, epic-scale filmmaking that unquestionably breaks ground in the Indian cinema in brutal candor if not theme. Wherever the truth lies, "Bandit Queen" on its own terms succeeds as a galvanic, eye-popping experience whose pain, vigor and passion is as richly expressed in Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's mesmerizing score as in cinematographer Ashok Mehta's indelible images. ... Full Review

Tightly-paced, powerfully-written, and well-acted, Bandit Queen is a first-rate adventure movie. Bandit Queen is not for the squeamish, or for those who prefer not to be challenged or unsettled by a motion picture. ... Full Review

Such sensitive filming keeps "Bandit Queen" from becoming a sensational story, though of course the subject matter is as sensational as it gets. Seema Biswas delivers a powerful performance as Phoolan Devi, who endured one abuse after the next and eventually became a feared and celebrated banditone responsible for a large-scale killing that became known as the Behmai Massacre. ... Full Review

Mumbai: It's packed with Oriental mystique -- not one, but two genies, wicked magicians, gold and jewels galore, a palace that is transported through thin air, a beautiful princess, and a poor boy who gets very lucky indeed. ... Full Article

Reitesh Deshmukh's latest movie Aladin which was promoted on L'il Champs this week. Keeping the same theme in mind, Dhairya had become Dhairuddin and his wish granting genie was Afsha. ... Full Article

Mumbai: Sanjay Gupta's Pankh has already been affirmed as the boldest film (in terms of dialogues) ever made in India. It has left behind the Bandit Queen that comprised of the dialogues that were not that gentle. ... Full Article

Billo Rani Bipasha's next flick " Pankh " is in fact quite a bold movie in which Bips is not playing a real character, she's only another character's imagination. ... Full Article

As Seema Rahmani prepares to play Irrfan's wife in the international film - Choli Ke Peeche - that'll bring her down to shoot in Kolkata, the actor reacts to news of her 'hot scenes' with Shiney in Sins getting maximum... ... Full Article

Legendary director Shekar Kapur has revealed in a recent interview that he is a great fan of Tamil Superstar Rajinikanth. In fact, he has not missed even a single Rajni movie in the last several years. ... Full Article