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
00:07:48 The young Master is most worried about you
00:11:18 Those who're dying send for me
00:15:02 "Accursed wretch, I know!"
00:21:18 It's a sin to keep the body overnight. I must cremate her
00:27:17 Yes... look up
00:30:11 "And I massaged it, Hukum... And then..."
00:33:39 So what else could I do... I stayed here
00:38:44 "Hukum, lt'll be a sin even if my shadow falls on you!"
00:42:43 "Besides, you sing so well!"
00:58:07 Today I'll cry till my heart breaks
01:01:12 It ruins the entire day!
01:05:45 You worry? - Whether you're alive or no
01:08:34 Whore...!
01:12:21 Throw her out! Out of this house!
01:16:02 And I want Mungri!
01:18:22 If I don't have you both mother and son...
01:24:23 And my Budhua did never come back
01:28:52 I looked all over and you're here!
01:31:33 "Because you are pure, that's why"
01:34:45 "Cry, Shanichari... Cry"
01:41:40 Bhishamdata...! Who is he?
01:45:06 Why not meet him at least once
01:50:31 Ma... O Ma... My Ma...!!