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 ...

Media reduced Phoolan Devi to a sensational figure—sexualised, dramatised and stripped of structural context. Bandit Queen reinforced the revenge narrative, overshadowing caste realities and political ...

Following her death, Phoolan Devi has been becoming a part of the political, cultural, and social memory repository of the Nishad community. Phoolan Devi was married at the age of eleven. Enduring ...

It’s hard to imagine a time when Phoolan Devi was not an icon. Ever since news spread in the early 1980s about the “Bandit Queen”, the only woman dacoit in the Chambal Valley, Phoolan has made the ...

New Delhi: The last time Phoolan Devi saw Vikram Mallah alive, they were lying next to each other in the Chambal ravines. A gunshot split the night. She reached for the rifles, thinking the police had ...

Five projects over 20 years mean that Rajesh Tailang and filmmaker Richie Mehta have gone beyond their professional collaboration to form a deeper bond. The actor, who starred in Mehta’s acclaimed ...

Lucknow: Seventeen years after she died, former bandit queen and then MP, v, is all set to make a “comeback” in the next Lok Sabha elections. Political parties in Uttar Pradesh are keen to revive the ...

Thirteen years after bandit-turned-politician Phoolan Devi was gunned down outside her residence, a Delhi court sentenced her killer, Sher Singh Rana, to life imprisonment on Thursday. Rana, 35, a ...