Finally, after hearing her story, Kazmi offered to make a biopic on her with Shakuntala playing herself on the screen, which is now complete. During her court cases, she met a man, Vinod Kumar Singh, who not only married her but also announced a Bhojpuri film starring her in the lead but it remained in the cans. Like Phoolan Devi, she also dabbled in politics for a while joining the Samajwadi Party and the Janata Dal-United in quick succession but could not make any headway in her political career. It was during her jail stints that she developed an interest in folk music and cut several albums in Maithili and Bhojpuri after being released.
Shakuntala, now 46, says that she had to spend about five years intermittently in jail on charges of murder, loot and extortion because of her uncle’s machinations but she was eventually exonerated by the courts. She soon became a terror for her tormentors but gained the reputation of being a do-gooder for rendering help to the poor and the needy in the area. Later, when she found herself exploited there too, she went on to form a gang of her own. Unable to bear with the trauma, she escaped and got in touch with some bandits in the area before getting married to one of them, Charitra Mahato, who taught her how to use a gun and ride a horse. When she resisted, he not only got her gangraped by some relatives and criminals but also tried to fix her marriage with an elderly person. According to Shakuntala, who belongs to an extremely backward Nonia caste, her uncle wanted to grab her land in the village after the death of her father. Shakuntala Devi in a still from the movie.Ī resident of Balanpatti village in Madhubani district near Nepal border, Shakuntala came to be known as the bandit queen of Bihar after she formed a gang of local dacoits to fight for the oppressed girls from her area in the 1990s. From the Magazine Brave New World Under The Shadow Of The Pandemic The Four Horsemen Of Apocalypse Prison Diary: Uncertainty Keeps Political Prisoners Hanging Between Hope And Hopelessness Covid Nightmare: Time Of The Living Dead Meowdi: A Short Story by Perumal Murugan
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