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...!!