Rudaali

Rudaali

1993
2h 8m
4.3

4.3/10

9 votes • View on IMDb
Overview

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.

Status: Released

Language: HI

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Production Information

Production Companies
National Film Development Corporation of India
Production Countries
India
Spoken Languages
Hindi

Quick Facts

Original Title रुदाली
Release Date January 11, 1993
Status Released
Language HI
IMDb ID tt0108001

Cast

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

Key Crew

Kalpana Lajmi
Director
Kalpana Lajmi
Writer
Ravi Malik
Producer
Ravi Gupta
Producer
Gulzar
Writer