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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.
Details
- Director
- Kalpana Lajmi
- Writers
- Gulzar, Kalpana Lajmi
- Released
- 11 January 1993
- Country
- India
- Language
- Hindi
- Runtime
- 128 min
- Awards
- 11 wins, 3 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 14 →11 wins from 14 nominations across 7 ceremonies
| 38th Asia-Pacific Film Festival 1994 | Best Music Director | Bhupen Hazarika | Winner |
| 38th Asia-Pacific Film Festival 1994 | Best Actress | Dimple Kapadia | Winner |
| 39th Filmfare Awards 1994 | Best Lyricist | Gulzar for "Dil Hoom Hoom" | Nominee |
| 39th Filmfare Awards 1994 | Best Actress | Dimple Kapadia | Nominee |
| 39th Filmfare Awards 1994 | Best Music Director | Bhupen Hazarika | Nominee |
| 8th Damascus International Film Festival 1994 | Best Actress | Dimple Kapadia | Winner |
| All-India Critics Association (AICA) Awards 1994 | Best Music Director | Bhupen Hazarika | Winner |
| All-India Critics Association (AICA) Awards 1994 | Best Hindi Film | Rudaali | Winner |
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14 awards — Rudaali
×| Best Actress | Dimple Kapadia | Winner |
| Best Art Direction | Samir Chanda | Winner |
| Best Costume Design | Mala Dey and Simple Kapadia | Winner |
| Best Director | Kalpana Lajmi | Winner |
| Best Hindi Film | Rudaali | Winner |
| Best Music Director | Bhupen Hazarika | Winner |
| Best Actress | Dimple Kapadia | Winner |
| Best Music Director | Bhupen Hazarika | Winner |
| Best Actress (Critics) | Dimple Kapadia | Winner |
| Best Actress | Dimple Kapadia | Winner |
| Excellence in Direction | Kalpana Lajmi | Winner |
| Best Actress | Dimple Kapadia | Nominee |
| Best Lyricist | Gulzar for "Dil Hoom Hoom" | Nominee |
| Best Music Director | Bhupen Hazarika | Nominee |