CinemaOSMovie · 1993 · 2h 8m

Rudaali

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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.

Directed byKalpana Lajmi

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Status
Released
Runtime
2h 8m
Language
HI
Released
January 11, 1993
Studios
National Film Development Corporation of India

Featuring

Cast & crew

8 credited
Starring
Dimple Kapadia

Dimple Kapadia

Shanichari

Rakhee Gulzar

Rakhee Gulzar

Bhikni

Raj Babbar

Raj Babbar

Thakur

Raghubir Yadav

Raghubir Yadav

Budhwa

Sushmita Mukherjee

Sushmita Mukherjee

Mungri

Amjad Khan

Amjad Khan

Thakur Ramavtar Singh

Ravi Jhankal

Ravi Jhankal

Suneel Sinha

Suneel Sinha

Creative team
Directed by
Kalpana Lajmi
Kalpana Lajmi
Written by
Gulzar
Gulzar
Kalpana Lajmi
Kalpana Lajmi
Produced by
Ravi Gupta
Ravi Malik

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