Director: Kalpana Lajmi; Writer: Kalpana Lajmi; Producer: Ravi Gupta, Ravi Malik, N.P. Mukne; Cinematographer: Santosh Sivan, Dharam Gulati; Editor: Bhanudas Divakar; Cast: Dimple Kapadia, Raakhee, Raj Babbar, Raghuvir Yadav, Sushmita Mukherjee, Manohar Singh, Rajesh Singh, Mita Vasisht, Usha Bannerjee, Mehnaz, Pramod Bala, Amjad Khan
Duration: 01:54:57; Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1; Hue: 48.644; Saturation: 0.125; Lightness: 0.284; Volume: 0.223; Cuts per Minute: 9.560; Words per Minute: 47.122
Summary: Set in Rajasthan, the film tells in flashback the
story of the slave woman Sanichari (Dimple).
She was abandoned by her drunken husband
(Ganju) and her son Budhwa (Yadav) left when
she rejected his shrewish prostitute wife
(Mukherjee). The Pandit (M. Singh) harasses
her, but she finds sympathy from the famous
professional mourner or rudaali, Bhikni
(Raakhee), summoned by the local potentate in
anticipation of his death. Bhikni, after she dies
unexpectedly, turns out to have been
Sanichari’s long-lost mother. Sanichari,
hardened by sorrow and no longer able to cry,
becomes the mistress of Laxman Singh
(Babbar). Eventually, mourning the death of
Bhikni, she breaks down and becomes a
rudaali like her mother.
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