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Rudaali Rudālī

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  • "Professional mourner"
  • "Mourner"
  • "Rudālī"

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  • "A social drama emphasizing conventions of social roles and narrative development through conflict and cathartic resolution of a woman who becomes a "Rudaali" i.e. a professional mourner."
  • "After her husband's death, Sanichari has lost hope in life. Bikhni, a seasoned rudaali, helps Sanichari to also become a professional mourner. Through her new occupation, Sanichari faces reality and becomes also an icon of hope."
  • "Sanichari, named for the day of the week on which she was born, is a poor unfortunate woman, eking out a bare living in the stark desert outpost of Jaisalmer. She befriends a strange woman named Bhikini, a mourner-weeper by profession, whose services are bought by the families of the dying. Impressed by the copious tears Bhikini is able to command and shed at will, Sanichari who is unable to cry at all despite her many sorrows, asks for the secret, but news of Bhikini's death brings heart-rending grief and genuine tears to Sanichari for the first time in her life."
  • "Underwritten by the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) and Doordarshan (Indian national television) as part of the Indian government's controversial but ongoing effort to provide audiences with edifying alternatives to "Bollywood" entertainment, and based on a short story by famed Bengali author Mahasweta Dev -- whose tales often focus on the travails of low-caste women -- RUDAALI is an uncommon and arresting film. Shot mostly on location in the Jaisalmer region of western Rajasthan, it features authentic regional costumes and props, somewhat less authentic (but quite haunting) music, and two famous female stars, Dimple Kapadia and Rakhee Gulzar, cast in unusual and challenging role -- the central roles in this film that lacks male heroes. The title refers to a custom in some parts of Rajastha -- where aristocratic women were long kept secluded and veile -- 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 displa -- or at times, perhaps did not feel. Dressed in black and with unbound hair, a rudaali beat her breast, danced spasmodically, rolled on the ground, and shed copious tears while loudly praising the deceased and lamenting his demise; the ability to hire such a performer was a mark of social status."

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  • "DVD-Video discs"
  • "Drama"
  • "Feature films"
  • "Fiction films"
  • "Foreign films"
  • "Musical films"
  • "Foreign language films"
  • "Ethnic"

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  • "Rudaali Rudālī"
  • "Rudaali Rudālī = Rudaali (the mourner)"

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