25 years after Bandit Queen, Phoolan Devi’s story to return as a web series

The original plans for a sequel to the Bandit Queen were traded in for a web series after the makers realised the potential the platform carried

25 years after Shekhar Kapur’s “Crook Queen” created a huge overall buzz following its debut in Directors’ Fortnight in 1994, the epochal movie’s maker, Bobby Bedi, has solidified designs for a 20-scene web arrangement on the life and demise of Phoolan Devi, the feared Chambal dacoit-turned-Member of Parliament who was killed in the core of Delhi in July 2001.

The web arrangement, titled “Phoolan Devi“, will be coordinated by Tigmanshu Dhulia, with Tannishtha Chatterjee assuming the job of the hero. Dhulia was the throwing executive of “Crook Queen”. Like Seema Biswas, who shot to popularity with the Cannes hit from 25 years back, Tannishtha is a National School of Drama (NSD) alumna. In any case, that is the place, the maker says, the similitude between the two preparations will end.

Talking on the sidelines of the 72nd Cannes Film Festival, Bedi uncovers that the web arrangement will go into creation inside the following couple of months. It will be spread out more than two periods of 10 scenes each. “The primary season will finish with Phoolan’s eight-year jail term, while the second will to a great extent spread the years in the consequence of her discharge,” he says.

“Her jail term was reached out by four years, yet inside two years of her discharge she turned into a Member of Parliament,” says Bedi. “There is a lot of Phoolan Devi’s life that remaining parts to be secured.” “‘Desperado Queen’ depended on how a lady needed to endure immense insults in country India because of being low rank. It concentrated on smashing rank abuse,” says Bedi…