9 March 2008

From Shekhar Kapur, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominated director of Elizabeth, comes one of the most powerful and controversial portraits of a warrior, martyr and legend that cinema has ever produced. Based on intimate, shattering prison diaries, Kapur's film tells the extraordinary true story of Phoolan Devi, the Goddess of Flowers, who became known as the Bandit Queen.

She was India's most infamous outlaw; a kidnapper, murderer and scourge of the upper castes. Sold into marriage aged 11, she was beaten and humiliated, living for years in virtual slavery. Until one day, she found the strength to rise up, to unite a makeshift army of maltreated and neglected citizens and in a five-year reign of terror cut a swath of bloody vengeance against those responsible for the brutality of her past.

Originally banned in its home country, where Indian critics had hailed it as one of the 20 greatest motion pictures the industry had ever produced, Bandit Queen is a violent and moving testimony to a real-life folk heroine.

Bandit Queen has been announced for a UK DVD release by Metrodome on 12st April 2008 at the RRP of £17.99. disc will feature a theatrical trailer and an exclusive, brand new commentary by director Shekhar Kapur.