New Delhi: Another Bollywood movie on the life of an Indian woman bandit is ready to hit silver screens across India, but this one is being billed as a gritty true story, not the flashy fantasy of past outlaw films, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Outlaw and suspected murderer Seema Parihar will share her life story with audiences in Wounded, playing the lead role in the movie directed by Krishna Mishra.
While, Bandit Queen, told the story of bandit, Phoolan Devi, portraying her as a heroine, Parihar insisted that Wounded would not romanticise the life of bandits.
"You are running from the police all the time," she was quoted as saying to a national daily.
But re-enacting her life proved heart-rending, Parihar reportedly said, recalling that she was kidnapped at the age of 13 because her father refused to marry her to someone from a lower caste.
For six years, she wasn't allowed to see her parents.
"You can imagine my state, what I went through. And this made a criminal out of me. Atrocities by men forced me to pick up the gun for survival," Parihar reportedly said.
After being caught two years ago, director Mishra approached her in prison for the role, while she was awaiting trial on murder charges for a number of killings in the Chambal ravines area, which is a common bandit haunt.
The Supreme Court allowed Parihar to be released in May so she could act in the movie on the condition she report her movements to a magistrate.
"Convincing authorities, and of course Seema, besides getting her bail organised was tough. But now that the film is ready, it's all been worth it," Mishra was quoted as saying.
Parihar is the wife of notorious dacoit Nirbhay Gujjar, who was killed by police in November.
No release date has been set for the movie, which has finished shooting.
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