Phoolan Devi (film)
Phoolan Devi | |
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Directed by | Ashok Roy |
Produced by | Rajeev Kaul |
Starring | Rita Bhaduri Suresh Oberoi Joy Mukherjee Goga Kapoor Prema Narayan |
Music by | Ravindra Jain |
Release date | 1985 |
Country | India |
Language | Bengali |
Phoolan Devi is a Bengali action movie of 1985 directed by Ashok Roy[1] and produced by Rajeev Kaul.[2] This movie was loosely based on the life of Indian bandit turned politician Smt. Phoolan Devi. The film was also released in Hindi with the name Kahani Phoolvati Ki'.[3] Popular hero of the Bollywood movies, Joy Mukherjee played the role of main antagonist in this film.[4]
Plot[]
Young Phoolan was forced to marry an old man Puttilal by her parents. Puttilal has another wife who started torture to Phoolan. One day Phoolan met with her close friend Meena who turned into bandit due to atrocities of Thakur brothers. Those Thakur brother, Bara Thakur and Chota Thakur terrorize the villagers. 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[]
- 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[]
- ^ "Phoolan Devi (1985) Cast - Actor, Actress, Director, Producer, Music Director". Cinestaan. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
- ^ Meheli Sen, Anustup Basu (21 October 2013). Figurations in Indian Film. ISBN 9781137349781. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
- ^ "Phoolan Devi (1985)". movies.sulekha.com. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
- ^ Harris M. Lentz III (19 April 2013). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2012. ISBN 9781476603858. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
External links[]
- Phoolan Devi at IMDb
- Bengali-language films
- 1985 films
- 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