Rudaali
1993 · 128 MIN · IMDB 7.4 · 593 VOTES · DIR. Kalpana Lajmi
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,065 lines
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00:01:02 The professional Mourner
00:07:46 God forbid!
00:11:12 Where have you come from?
00:14:54 That's why you're named...
00:20:59 "Go, you accursed wretch! ...God forbid..."
00:26:57 Who're you giving water to?
00:29:49 "I was working and Kalia brought me here, all tied up"
00:33:07 May I just wash my face and hands?
00:38:04 I have wanted you
00:41:59 Kalia told me you've a lovely voice
00:49:00 The Thakur isn't going to die so soon... Give me a light
00:59:56 I'll take 3O rupees to perform the proper rituals
01:04:06 "Where're you hiding, you rascal?"
01:07:37 "What're you saying, Munimji!"
01:11:18 "Oh, Budhua, you're home... Stop that playing!"
01:13:45 "You'll keep her here, won't you, Ma! Please Ma"
01:17:32 Both'll be happy now...
01:19:33 You whore! If it weren't for my grandson in your womb...
01:26:32 So much happened to me and yet I did not cry!
01:30:06 ...to do the mourning
01:33:09 You've been crying at wakes for years
01:36:03 There'll be two Rudalis in the place of one!
01:43:27 The young Master has sent for her
01:47:17 About your daughter-in-law...