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Rudaali
Shanichari is a beautiful girl born in lower cast and her life is full of sufferings because of lower cast, poor finances, lost parents, drunken husband, mischievous son. The title refers to a custom in some parts of Rajasthan—where aristocratic women were long kept secluded and veiled—of hiring professional women mourners on the death of a male relative, a rudaali (pronounced “roo-dah-lee”—literally, a female “weeper”) to publicly express the grief that family members, constrained by their high social status, were not permitted to display—or at times, perhaps did not feel. Underwritten by the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) and Doordarshan (Indian national television) and based on a short story by famed Bengali author Mahasweta Devi—whose tales often focus on the travails of low-caste women.
Cast
- Dimple Kapadia as Shanichari
- Rakhee Gulzar as Bhikni
- Raj Babbar as Thakur
- Raghubir Yadav as Budhwa
- Sushmita Mukherjee as Mungri
- Amjad Khan as Thakur Ramavtar Singh
- Ravi Jhankal
- Suneel Sinha
Details
- Director
- Kalpana Lajmi
- Released
- January 11, 1993
- Runtime
- 2h 8m
- Genres
- Drama
- Studio
- National Film Development Corporation of India
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 4.7 / 10 from 10 votes
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