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“Grade: B- “Phoolan” premiered at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival.”
“Devi lived an exceptional life until her 2001 assassination.”
“Rare are the times that a heroine in mainstream Indian cinema is cast with dark skin, and the filmmakers make her appropriately radiant — the way some of the villagers see her — planting the seeds for a kind of divinity that never fully comes to light.”
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“Still, Mehta and cinematographer Pip White craft an enticing atmosphere amid the gunfire, as day turns to night, and dust consumes the air.”
“Outlaw, feminist icon, and eventual politician, few figures in post-Independent India drum up as much furor, reverence and controversy, though you might not know it from “Phoolan” alone.”
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“That it works at all is impressive, since its back-and-forth narrative structure is, at best, haphazard.”
“Powered by WordPress.com VIP TIFF ‘Phoolan’ Review: A Biopic About a Rebellious Indian Feminist Is Undone by its Ramshackle Structure India’s "Bandit Queen" gets a welcome cinematic update, albeit one that can’t sustain itself By Siddhant Adlakha Plus icon Siddhant Adlakha More stories by Siddhant ‘Paradise Lost’ Review: ‘Train to Busan’ Director Yeon Sang-ho Returns with a Limp and Lurid Grief Drama About Virtual Reality Read more ‘Half’ Review: A Grisly Indian Vampire Western Tumbles Into Excess Read more ‘Edward Said: Between Worlds’ Review: A Straightforward Archival Documentary Pays Tribute to the Academic in His Own Words Read more September 21, 2026 11:15 am Add us as a Google Preferred Source 'Phoolan' Amazon MGM Studios Share Share on Facebook Post Share on LinkedIn Show more sharing options Submit to Reddit Pin it Post to Tumblr Email Print This Page Share on WhatsApp One of India’s most famous insurgents, Phoolan Devi has a fascinating story, one slice of which forms the basis of Richie Mehta’s “Phoolan.” Based partially on Devi’s autobiography “I, Phoolan,” Mehta’s movie follows Shekhar Kapur’s famous 1994 telling “Bandit Queen” — a more sprawling biopic, though one Devi herself rejected — but spools its political and social context around a single police encounter.”
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“It begins with a man leering at a young Devi from afar before she snaps back at him, jolting the film forward to the beginnings of a police raid on a village where she’s hiding.”
“Its story belongs entirely to the setting in which it unfolds, without ever fanning outward to detail the great importance of a woman vigilante of a lower caste, in a world of severe structural violence.”
“The pieces themselves are quite powerful, involving bits and bobs of righteous fury and vigilante justice, but they’re rarely strung together with the requisite rhythm.”
“It’s a film of great visual and dramatic setups which all eventually scatter as the raid continues.”
“However, the film doesn’t spend enough time analyzing this pedestal, or its necessity, in moments of desperation.”
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“It takes a while before the film can contextualize these events within its larger musings on caste, gender and economic oppression, which aren’t strictly necessary when introducing Devi’s armed struggle, though their absence does lead to a lack of narrative momentum.”
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