Starring Seema Biswas, Bandit Queen revolved across the lifetime of Phoolan Devi, the scary Chambal dacoit-turned-Member of Parliament.
Shekhar Kapur-Bandit Queen
Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur on Tuesday alleged that the streaming model of his 1994 movie “Bandit Queen” is “unrecognisable” from the film he at the beginning directed and that it used to be edited with out his permission. The director, additionally recognized for motion pictures corresponding to Masoom and Mr India requested whether or not OTT platforms would do the similar with a movie via Hollywood nice Christopher Nolan.
“The Bandit Queen on Amazon Top is unrecognisable from my movie. Somebody has lower it past popularity. And but it carries my identify as Director. And no person requested me! Are we lesser beings than Western Administrators? Would they’ve the center to chop a Chris Nolan movie with out his permission?” he wrote on his X (previously Twitter) account.
Seriously acclaimed Bandit Queen revolved across the lifetime of Phoolan Devi, the scary Chambal dacoit-turned-Member of Parliament. Seema Biswas performed the titular function within the movie, which generated an enormous international buzz following its premiere in Administrators’ Fortnight phase of the 1994 Cannes Movie Competition.
I’m wondering @IAmSudhirMishra if OTT platforms would let me make #BanditQueen the best way I made it years in the past. The Bandit Queen on #AmazonPrime is unrecognisable from my movie. Somebody has lower it past popularity. And but it carries my identify as Director. And no person requested me! Are we… https://t.co/LoYtkddlvp
— Shekhar Kapur (@shekharkapur) March 18, 2025
The dialog began from Kapur’s X submit by which he praised Netflix mini-series Early life for its subsequent degree storytelling. “I am not the primary one to mention this however Early life from Netflix redefines what really nice collection can succeed in. Its defies the common 3 act construction of reason and impact and plunges you deeply into the minds of the characters and lets you mirror upon your self”, he wrote at the microblogging web site.
Fellow director Sudhir Mishra commented on Kapur’s submit, announcing no person would let Indian filmmakers pursue a display like Early life. The Netflix collection is a British crime drama which centres round a 13-year-old schoolboy Jamie Miller, who’s arrested for the homicide of a classmate. Each and every episode is shot in a single take.
