Rudaali

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Dimple Kapadia

Shanichari

Age : 67 | Popularity : 8%

Rakhee Gulzar

Bhikni

Age : 76 | Popularity : 3%

Raj Babbar

Thakur

Age : 72 | Popularity : 3%

Raghubir Yadav

Budhwa

Age : N/A | Popularity : 47%

Sushmita Mukherjee

Mungri

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Amjad Khan

Age : 51 | Popularity : 3%

Ravi Jhankal

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Suneel Sinha

Age : N/A | Popularity : 7%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Kalpana Lajmi
Writing	Writer	Kalpana Lajmi Gulzar
Camera	Director of Photography	Dharam Gulati Santosh Sivan
Editing	Editor	Bhanudas Divakar
Production	Producer	Ravi Gupta Ravi Malik
Department	Role	Name

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