It should be like a woman suddenly mowed down by a speeding bus, people watching it should be so brutalised that they wouldn’t want to look at it again. Here is what Kapur told her: “I am showing the height of humiliation, it is the ugliest moment and I don’t want to film it in a beautiful manner. The filmmaker’s response was like light to her. The learned counsel for the plaintiff has argued that though defendant no.3 kept assuring the plaintiff that he would show her the film made on her life story but instead of showing the film to the plaintiff on 9.8.94 there was a private screening of the film Bandit Queen at Siri Fort Auditorium, New Delhi. Finally, they told me to ask Shekhar himself,” Ms Biswas said.
I went to my teachers and discussed the issue. She had always been fascinated by realism in films, ever since she watched foreign classics at Pragathi Maidan during her theatre days in Delhi. “But I knew that was precisely the way it should be filmed, it was so realistic, brutally honest,” she said. “The moment, as described in the script, was so disturbing that I could not sleep for three days,” Ms Biswas said during an In Conversation session organised as part of IFFK here on Monday. When it was time to do the scene, Seema Biswas was deeply conflicted. The story of the bandit queen Phoolan Devi who was sent to prison in 1983 and got free in 1994.
THIRUVANANTHPAURAM: Eventually Shekhar Kapur used a body double for the Behmai rape scene in ‘Bandit Queen’. With Seema Biswas, Nirmal Pandey, Rajesh Vivek, Raghuvir Yadav.
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