![]() ![]() Thakur Ramavtar Singh, the zamindar ( transl. ![]() The film was selected as the Indian entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 66th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. Kapadia won Best Actress honours at the 8th Damascus International Film Festival and the 38th Asia-Pacific Film Festival, where Hazarika was awarded for his music. The film won three National Film Awards, including Best Actresss for Kapadia, and was nominated for three Filmfare Awards, earning Kapadia a Critics Award for Best Performance. Particular critical praise was directed at Kapadia's performance, with further appreciation of the film's script, music, technical achievements, and Lajmi's direction. Rudaali was a critical and unexpected commercial success. Produced by the National Film Development Corporation of India and Doordarshan, the film was labelled part of India's neo-realist parallel cinema, but it employed several of the common elements of mainstream Hindi cinema, including songs composed by Bhupen Hazarika. Raakhee, Raj Babbar, and Amjad Khan appear in supporting roles. Set in a small village in Rajasthan, the film stars Dimple Kapadia as Shanichari, a lonely and hardened woman who, despite a lifetime of misfortune and abandonment, is unable to express grief through crying and is challenged with a new job as a professional mourner. ![]() Female weeper) is a 1993 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Kalpana Lajmi, written by Lajmi and Gulzar and based on a 1979 short story of the same name by Bengali author Mahasweta Devi. ![]()
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