Cannes, May 19 -- A quarter-century after it premiered in Cannes, 'Bandit Queen' will be back as a web series.
The announcement of a web series on the life of Phoolan Devi was made at the ongoing 72nd Cannes film festival on Saturday by Bobby Bedi, who produced the 1994 film 'Bandit Queen'.
The series will begin from where the film ended, with the surrender of Phoolan Devi to the police. "We wanted to do a sequel, but the internet offers the opportunity to tell the rest of her life story,'' Bedi said while making the announcement at the Indian pavilion in the Cannes film market.
''For a while we were exploring the possibility of telling the rest of the story, after the surrender in 1983,'' said Bedi, who was in Cannes in 1994 to present...