Phoolan Devi
Directed byAshok Roy
Produced byRajeev Kaul
StarringRita Bhaduri
Suresh Oberoi
Joy Mukherjee
Goga Kapoor
Prema Narayan
Music byRavindra Jain
Release date
1985
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Phoolan Devi is a 1985 Bengali action movie directed by Ashok Roy[1] and produced by Rajeev Kaul.[2] 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'.[3] Popular hero of the Bollywood movies, Joy Mukherjee played the role of main antagonist.[4]

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.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ "Phoolan Devi (1985) Cast - Actor, Actress, Director, Producer, Music Director". Cinestaan. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  2. ↑ Meheli Sen, Anustup Basu (21 October 2013). Figurations in Indian Film. Springer. ISBN 9781137349781. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  3. ↑ "Phoolan Devi (1985)". movies.sulekha.com. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  4. ↑ Harris M. Lentz III (19 April 2013). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2012. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. ISBN 9781476603858. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
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