irrespective of the accuracy of fact and bandit queen be a true story and it true because the theme it deal with hold a much truth today a they do way back in 1994. this movie be violent and powerful and think provoke . the protagonist be a woman of flesh and blood and whose adversity bring out the best ( or bad ) out of her . keep the subjectivity aside and there be no doubt that phoolan character from a young girl of 8 and who be marry off by her father to clear a debt ( pun intend ) and to a gang leader who go on to become a leader of the low caste and have evolve into a champion in her own right . her portrayal be so powerful that the viewer be even willing to forgive her for a massacre . i can understand if the western audience be not able to appreciate this masterpiece and bandit queen need to be tudied in the indian context and and not just check out in stereotype . i may not be able to sell it on it universal appeal but it certainly a must watch for the indian audience and it a shame that the movie have a delay and overtly censor release in india . bandit queen be the story of a woman who fight against two odds in india and be a woman and that too a low caste and her rebellious nature and inability to just give in caused her the most horrible experience in life and which only go on to strengthen her into a self proclaim goddess . she respond to violence with violence and dint become the submissive woman society want her to be . call it divine justice or judiciary failure and have she kill a single person she would have be hang and she kill 24 and get revere and respect and glorify . p. s # whoever find her character psychotic and need to be sodomize at 8 and gangraped by 10 men at a go and parade naked . then they should be ask how normal do they feel .