The film is highly criticized by Arundhati Roy in her film review named 'The Great Indian Rape-Trick'.[2]
Karen Gabriel, Reading Rape: Sexual Difference, Representational Excess and Narrative Containment, in Manju Jain (ed.) Narratives of Indian Cinema, New Delhi: Primus, 2009. Karen Gabriel
See also Karen Gabriel, Melodrama and the Nation: The Sexual Economies of Mainstream Bombay Cinema (1970-2000), New Delhi: Kali/ Women Unlimited, 2010.
^Let us Know Someting About It In Detail. The real life Phoolan Devi was born in 1963 and was married when she was about 11. See Phoolan Devi for more details