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.
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Plot
Young Phoolan is forced to marry Puttilal, an old man, by her parents. Puttilal's other wife tortures Phoolan. One day Phoolan meets with her close friend Meena who has turned into a 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 and killed 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
Gautam Mukherjee as Police commissioner
Prema Narayan as Meena
Goga Kapoor as Meena's Husband / Police Informer
Asit Kumar Sen
Manik Dutt as Decoit
Tarun Ghosh