Richie Mehta on Turning Bandit Queen Phoolan Devi’s Story Into a 48-Hour Siege: ‘She Was Somebody Who Found Agency’
Richie Mehta did not want to make this film. When producers at Namah Pictures – Shareen Mantri Kedia, Kishor Arora and Kanwal Kohli – approached him with the rights to Phoolan Devi’s dictated autobiography, his first instinct was to turn them down. He calls himself “a non-resident Indian Punjabi boy” with no natural claim to […]
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