''Phoolan Hasina Ramkali'' is a 1993
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Blaxploitation
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film, directed and produced by
Kanti Shah
Kanti Shah is a Bollywood hindi movies director, producer, screenwriter and writer of B grade and C grade Hindi movies, especially horror and adult movies. He is best known for directing films featuring Mithun Chakraborty and Dharmendra in l ...
. This movie was released under the banner of Mangla Films on 29 January 1993.
Plot
The story based on the life of three lady dacoits, namely Phoolan, Hasina and Ramkali. The movie starts with action of Police officer Arjun Singh, who is honest and brave of heart. Arjun arrests infamous Dacoit Kundan Singh after a sudden fight. Police constable Bahadur was injured in this encounter, but Arjun succeeded in capturing Kundan. By the help of corrupt cop Ajit, Kundan fled from the lockup and attacked Arjun's house. Arjun was killed by Kundan. Arjun's friend Inspector Badsah Khan promises that he will take revenge of this murder one day. Years later, a village girl Phoolan helps the lady police inspector Hasina to arrest one illegal arms supplier. The main arms dealer or kingpin of crime sent his goon Vikhu to kidnap Phoolan. Actually, the kingpin is Kundan, who takes the new name, Thakur Saheb. Thakur rapes Phoolan, but police officer Ajit does not take any action against the offender. Although Ispector Hasina arrests Vikhu, Ajit fabricate a false murder case against Hasina and send her into the jail. Phoolan kills two henchmen of Thakur, runs out from the area and also makes her own gang of dacoits. On another occasion, Ramkali, daughter of deceased Arjun Singh is forcefully sent into a brothel. She kills the lady brothel keeper and joins with Phoolan and Hasina. These three victimized ladies start to take revenge against their respective oppressors.
Cast
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Shakti Kapoor
Shakti Kapoor (born Sunil Kapoor; 3 September 1952) is an Indian actor and comedian who appears in Bollywood films. Known for his villainous and comic roles in Hindi films, he has featured in over 600 films. In the 1980s and 1990s, Kapoor teame ...
as Bahadur
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Sudha Chandran
Sudha Chandran (born 27 September 1965) is an Indian Bharatanatyam dancer and actress who appears in Indian television and films. In 1981, she hurt her leg in a road accident near Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu while coming back from Madras with he ...
as Phoolan
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Sadashiv Amrapurkar
Sadashiv Dattaray Amrapurkar (11 May 1950 – 3 November 2014) was an Indian actor, best known for his performances in Marathi language, Marathi and Hindi films from 1983 to 1999. He acted in more than 300 movies in Hindi, Marathi, and other r ...
as Bandit Kundan Singh
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Anupam Kher as Police officer Arjun Singh
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Kiran Kumar
Kiran Kumar (born as Deepak Dhar; 20 October 1953) is an Indian screen and theatre actor. He has worked in numerous Hindi, Bhojpuri and Gujarati television and film productions. His latest work in drama is ''Charlie 2''.
Personal life
Kumar co ...
as Badsah Khan
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Raza Murad
Raza Murad (born 23 November 1950) is an Indian actor who appears primarily in Hindi films.
He has over 250 Bollywood film credits. Murad has also appeared in Bhojpuri and other regional-language films and on Hindi television.
Early life
He i ...
as Inspector Ajit
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Avtar Gill
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Selected filmography Films
* ''Noorie'' (1979)
* '' ...
as Badrinath
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Kishore Bhanushali
Kishore Bhanushali is an Indian actor and stand-up comedian notable for his works in Hindi films and television serials. He has a likeness to late Bollywood actor Dev Anand. He had the main lead in many films like ''Hum Hain Khalnayak'', ''Jai ...
as Dev Anand (Duplicate)
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Vijay Saxena
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as Sundar
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Rajesh Vivek
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as Chaturdas
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Firoz Irani
Firoz Irani is an Indian actor, producer, director and writer, mainly working in Hindi entertainment and Gujarati cinema.
Selected filmography
;As actor
*2022 ''Adko Dadko''
*2018 ''GujjuBhai - Most Wanted'' (cameo)
*2015 ''Saako-363, Amrit ...
* Kirti Singh as Hasina
* Aparajita
References
External links
* {{IMDb title, 0396805
1993 films
1990s Hindi-language films
1993 action films
Indian rape and revenge films
Films about outlaws
Indian films about revenge
Films scored by Dilip Sen-Sameer Sen
Films directed by Kanti Shah