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(1994)

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Sex & Nudity

  • A woman gets raped as she screams in terror. The next shot shows a man's bare butt as he penetrates her on top.
  • A bunch of children bathe in a river. We see their bare chests but nothing sexual.
  • A man approaches a woman. The look on his face implies he wants to have sex with her. He grabs onto her a few times but gets pushed by her.
  • A woman bathes in a river. Her bare back is shown throughout. She sees a man watching her.
  • A couple have sex clothed. She humps him as she lays on top of him. No nudity is occurred throughout.
  • After sex, a man says "How did I fuck?" A woman says "What did you do? I did all the work."
  • A man says to a woman he wants to see her naked. Just one.
  • A baby is shown nude throughout a raid.
  • Many sexual tensions towards a woman.
  • A girl around age eleven is married to an older man.
  • A woman is raped multiple times throughout the movie. One scene shows a man's bare butt as he lies on top of her. Another scene has a group of men taking turns raping her, most of the scene focuses on the woman's face, no nudity, but very disturbing, and graphic.
  • A scene shows a couple enjoying sex. No nudity, but movement.

Violence & Gore

  • A man gets shot in the head. We see minimal blood explode and falls down.
  • A bunch of men threaten each other to not move. Some do but get shot including a young man.
  • A young girl gets slapped by her husband. He slowly approaches her and is about to assault her and she screams. Whatever happens off-screen, she is seen crying on the floor.
  • A woman shows her back that has severe whip marks.
  • A woman gets raped off-screen, we only hear her screaming and mumbling. The next shot showing a hand covering her face as she gets gets her mouth shut and lets go. We see her horrified face in a close-up shot.
  • A young boy slingshots a waterpot and water spills all over a young girl.
  • A man beats a woman with his rifle and falls.
  • A woman and her cousin struggle to ride on a bike with each other and fall over. This is meant to be funny.
  • A man grabs a little boy and puts a knife on his face. He is let go.
  • A man grabs hold of a woman aggressively and she fights back by pushing him over.
  • A man grabs, drags and pushes a woman on the ground and slaps her countless times with his sandle.
  • A man gets shot in the leg. He slowly falls as we see blood flowing in the water. We later see him in bed with a bandage covering his wound.
  • A woman lands her face on a man's stomach as they wrestle each other out of bed due to him wanting to see her naked. She calls out for help through the window but gets her mouth shut by his hand and falls down. It ends with her aggressively smacking him a few times.
  • A funeral is shown with a lot of corpses covered in white sheets and are prepared to be burned.
  • A woman is almost starved to death. She is saved by someone who feeds her water.
  • A bunch of armed men approach a house where they want a woman.
  • A boat with a bunch of policemen gun down men trying to run away.
  • Vikram's gang and Phoolan (disguised as police) raid a truck. She hits a truck driver.
  • Three men drag and whip a person in a hallway.
  • Phoolan and her come to a village to gain the villager's attention but run away.
  • Various characters are shot throughout the movie, and blood is shown.
  • A woman is brutally raped and beaten.
  • A man is stabbed and beaten nearly to death.

Profanity

  • A few uses of Hindi swear words is spoken by a young girl. e.g., "All men are motherfuckers".
  • A woman says the word "sisterfuckers" in the opening shot of the opening scene and the same woman as a young girl says the same line at the very end with the full quote "My name is Phoolan Devi, sisterfuckers".
  • A man says to a whole village "This thing called me a motherfucker" while dragging Phoolan nude.
  • A young girl swears at a group of young boys. She calls them "sons of bitches", "motherfuckers" and an insult "may you marry witches". She says one more line but isn't subtitled.
  • The Hindi f-word is spoken and subtitled throughout the film many times; usually as mother****** or sister******.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • There are hardly any drugs present, but occasional smoking.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • What the woman has been through has been intense, nightmarish, dark, emotional and disturbing.
  • A woman gets humiliated and blamed by everyone in her home.
  • The entire film is very violent, from the beginning to the very end.
  • The film deals with themes of child molestation, rape, and revenge at a high level.
  • Every rape and killing scene is extremely, realistically and horrifyingly brutal.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Sex & Nudity

  • Phoolan gets captured. A man removes his sheet piece of clothing that shows his bare legs. He kicks her. He lifts up his shirt. He unties her legs. He slaps her and lands on her and rapes her. Another man walks in and watches and joins in off-screen. From there, a group of men (one-by-one) come in and take turns. The scene continues with her getting raped while two men softly touch her face and pulls her lips. The scene ends with her hands raising. This rape scene is more severe as it is longer.
  • Phoolan and Vikram begin to feel for each other by touching each other and kiss. The scene lasts for about two minutes.
  • A man takes a blanket off Phoolan and is stripped butt-naked and forced to walk through the town. She covers her breasts with her arm, but her pubic hair and a side view of her butt is shown throughout the scene.

Violence & Gore

  • Vikram drags a man out which turns out to be Phoolan's husband. He gets tied up and Phoolan beats him several times severely. Blood is seen dripping out of his mouth and on his clothes. She becomes full of rage as she drags and shakes his head and dies. During this, she flashes back to her memory (same shot of young Phoolan being abused by him at the beginning of the film). Vikram watches and looks away throughout the scene.
  • Phoolan gets captured and gets violently raped continuously by men coming in taking turns one-by-one. It ends with her getting her lips heavily pinched.
  • Vikram gets shot and falls down. He gets shot again and screams. He dies.
  • Phoolan Devi gets stranded and left in a desert, and almost starves to death. A man feeds her water.
  • Phoolan and her gang raid a village where men use to humiliate her and treat her like a laughing stock years ago. They take revenge by taking every man. She shoots two men in the knee. One is shown in close-up with blood all over his knee and the other off-screen. They all gun down every man with extreme and graphic detail. It ends with pool of blood filling the area and a butt-nude baby walks though the place.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The scene where Phoolan takes revenge on her abusive husband by beating him to death is one of the most realistic revenge scenes to come out of Bollywood. It is full of emotion, realism and disturbing.
  • Phoolan's men shoot down a whole village of men.
  • Phoolan beats her husband to death.
  • Vikram gets shot down.
  • Phoolan gets captured and raped by many men.

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