Phoolan is married to a twenty-something year old man called Puttilal ( Aditya Shrivastava). The film opens in the summer of 1968 at a small village in Uttar Pradesh. The film was selected as the Indian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 67th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. The film was premiered in the Directors' Fortnight section of the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, and was screened at the Edinburgh Film Festival. The film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi, Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie and Best Direction for that year. The music was composed by Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. It was written, produced, and directed by Shekhar Kapur and starred Seema Biswas as the title character. Bandit Queen is a 1994 Indian Hindi-language biographical action-adventure film based on the life of Phoolan Devi as covered in the book India's Bandit Queen: The True Story of Phoolan Devi by the Indian author Mala Sen.
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