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.
Top billed cast
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Dimple Kapadia
Shanichari
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Rakhee Gulzar
Bhikni
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Raj Babbar
Thakur
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Raghubir Yadav
Budhwa
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Sushmita Mukherjee
Mungri
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Amjad Khan
Thakur Ramavtar Singh
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Ravi Jhankal
Role not available
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Suneel Sinha
Role not available
Actresses in this database credited here
- Dimple Kapadia as Shanichari
- Rakhee Gulzar as Bhikni