{
  "id": 7319513,
  "title": "Richie Mehta on Turning Bandit Queen Phoolan Devi’s Story Into a 48-Hour Siege: ‘She Was Somebody Who Found Agency’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/richie-mehta-on-turning-bandit-queen-phoolan-devis-story-into-a-48",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-14T12:22:18.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/festivals/richie-mehta-bandit-queen-phoolan-toronto-1236859457/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Richie Mehta did not want to make this film. When producers at Namah Pictures – Shareen Mantri Kedia, Kishor Arora and Kanwal Kohli – approached him with the rights to Phoolan Devi’s dictated autobiography, his first instinct was to turn them down. He calls himself “a non-resident Indian Punjabi boy” with no natural claim to […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Indian Express",
        "title": "New film zooms into 48 hours of Phoolan Devi that made her ‘bandit queen’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/11/new-film-zooms-into-48-hours-of-phoolan-devi-that-made-her-bandit",
        "published": "2026-09-11T22:54:49.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}