The first film by Shekhar Kapur, the critically acclaimed director of Elizabeth.

On the 12th February 1983, India’s most famous –and feared- outlaw surrendered to police. The outlaw stood accused of many counts of murder and kidnapping, including the killing of thirty men in one raid – a massacre that became the infamous ‘Behmai Massacre’. A massacre that brought down an entire government.This outlaw was a woman. Her name was Phoolan Devi, the Goddess of Flowers, India’s ‘Bandit Queen’.Phoolan Devi surrendered with her gang on her own terms, negotiating with a police force that was unable to capture her. Terms that did her honour. She surrendered in front of a cheering crowd of ten thousand, who considered her an avenging angel, the scourge of the high castes and the rich, and protector of the low caste and poor. This is her story...