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Bandit Queen was indeed banned. But Kapur believes that the censors, who demanded 25 significant cuts, have another agenda: "To them the film's most offensive aspect is its depiction of the caste system. To expose this hierarchy of inequality is the worst sin I've committed."
Devi, who sued to stop a Toronto Film Festival screening of Bandit Queen, has since settled with the producers and, says Kapur, "now stands by the film." But the Indian government would not grant her a passport to attend the U.S. premiere. American filmgoers can see an exciting movie that...
Part Joan of Arc, part Ma Barker, Phoolan Devi in the early 1980's became a folk hero as head of a band of outlaws preying on India's corrupt elite. Her movie bio, saysTIME's Richard Corliss, "has an Indian heart but a Hollywood pulse; an assaultive experience, blistering...
"The way the game is officiated is basically a caste system. If this were India, Alonzo and Michael would be members of the Gandhi family and guys like me would be the peasants. Alonzo's bitter because he lost. But that's the way the NBA works for Michael and...
Block said that the legacy of slavery and discrimination against Black Americans has reduced them to this caste-like status, which could account for the 15 point difference in white and Black IQs.