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.
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Dimple Kapadia
Shanichari
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Tenet
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Rakhee Gulzar
Bhikni
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Karan Arjun
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Santosh Sivan
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Ravi Gupta
Kalpana Lajmi
Raj Babbar
Thakur
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Bodyguard
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Known for
Panchayat
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NP Mukne
Kalpana Lajmi Director · Gulzar Writer Mahasweta Devi Author
First release January 11, 1993 · Produced in India · Production Doordarshan
Production
National Film Development Corporation of India
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Doordarshan
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Original title
रुदाली
Original language
Hindi
Spoken on screen
Hindi
Release dates
India · January 11, 1993
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