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'''''Sati''''' is a [[Bengali language|Bengali]] film released in [[1989 in film|1989]] written and directed by [[Aparna Sen]]. Based on a story by [[Kamal Kumar Majumdar]],<ref>{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=8y8vN9A14nkC | title = Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema: historical record, the business and its future, narrative forms, analysis of the medium, milestones, biographies | author = [[Gulzar (lyricist)|Gulzar]], [[Govind Nihalani]], Saibal Chatterjee | publisher = Popular Prakashan | year = 2003 | isbn = 81-7991-066-0 | page = 337 | access-date = 2009-01-10}}</ref> the film is about mute orphan girl who is married to a [[Banyan tree]] because her horoscope suggests that she would be a [[Sati (practice)|sati]], and her husband would die. The film had [[Shabana Azmi]] and Arun Banerjee in lead roles.<ref>{{cite web | title = Aparna Sen Profile|publisher=Chaosmag, Indian Cinema Database| url = http://www.chaosmag.in/aparna.html | access-date = 2014-06-06 }}</ref> | '''''Sati''''' is a [[Bengali language|Bengali]] film released in [[1989 in film|1989]] written and directed by [[Aparna Sen]]. Based on a story by [[Kamal Kumar Majumdar]],<ref>{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=8y8vN9A14nkC | title = Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema: historical record, the business and its future, narrative forms, analysis of the medium, milestones, biographies | author = [[Gulzar (lyricist)|Gulzar]], [[Govind Nihalani]], Saibal Chatterjee | publisher = Popular Prakashan | year = 2003 | isbn = 81-7991-066-0 | page = 337 | access-date = 2009-01-10}}</ref> the film is about A mute orphan girl who is married to a [[Banyan tree]] because her horoscope suggests that she would be a [[Sati (practice)|sati]], and her husband would die. The film had [[Shabana Azmi]] and Arun Banerjee in lead roles.<ref>{{cite web | title = Aparna Sen Profile | publisher = Chaosmag, Indian Cinema Database | url = http://www.chaosmag.in/aparna.html | access-date = 2014-06-06 | archive-date = 22 June 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150622123105/http://www.chaosmag.in/aparna.html | url-status = dead }}</ref> | ||
Along with her previous films, ''[[Parama (film)|Parama]]'' (1984), Aparna Sen became the first female director in [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali cinema]] to explore gender issues and feminist perspective.<ref name="NatarajanNelson1996">{{cite book|author1=Nalini Natarajan|author2=Emmanuel Sampath Nelson|title=Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lTnv6o-d_oC&pg=PA420|date=1 January 1996|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-28778-7|pages=420–}}</ref><ref name="Ramanathan2006">{{cite book|author=Geetha Ramanathan|title=Feminist Auteurs: Reading Women's Films|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9QOXkTIkLZwC&pg=PA110|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Wallflower Press|isbn=978-1-904764-69-4|pages=110–}}</ref> | Along with her previous films, ''[[Parama (film)|Parama]]'' (1984), Aparna Sen became the first female director in [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali cinema]] to explore gender issues and feminist perspective.<ref name="NatarajanNelson1996">{{cite book|author1=Nalini Natarajan|author2=Emmanuel Sampath Nelson|title=Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lTnv6o-d_oC&pg=PA420|date=1 January 1996|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-28778-7|pages=420–}}</ref><ref name="Ramanathan2006">{{cite book|author=Geetha Ramanathan|title=Feminist Auteurs: Reading Women's Films|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9QOXkTIkLZwC&pg=PA110|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Wallflower Press|isbn=978-1-904764-69-4|pages=110–}}</ref> | ||
== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
The young Brahmin girl ([[Shabana Azmi]]) in this story has a disastrous horoscope. In an Indian village in 1828, this can be a real handicap. The fact that she is mute only compounds her difficulties. Her horoscope predicts that she will become a widow at an early age. If this turns out as predicted, in addition to being bad luck for her prospective husbands, it is bad luck for her, as she will, according to the customs of the time, have to commit ''suttee'', [[Sati (practice)|sati]]. That means she will have to be burned alive on her husband's funeral pyre. To avoid this fate, her family has hit upon the appealing | The young Brahmin girl ([[Shabana Azmi]]) in this story has a disastrous horoscope. In an Indian village in 1828, this can be a real handicap. The fact that she is mute only compounds her difficulties. Her horoscope predicts that she will become a widow at an early age. If this turns out as predicted, in addition to being bad luck for her prospective husbands, it is bad luck for her, as she will, according to the customs of the time, have to commit ''suttee'', [[Sati (practice)|sati]]. That means she will have to be burned alive on her husband's funeral pyre. To avoid this fate, her family has hit upon the appealing stratagem of having her marry a banyan tree. | ||
==Cast== | ==Cast== | ||
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| Sati | |
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 Poster | |
| Directed by | Aparna Sen |
| Produced by | NFDC |
| Screenplay by | Aparna Sen Arun Banerjee |
| Story by | Kamal Kumar Majumdar |
| Starring | Shabana Azmi |
| Music by | Chidananda Das Gupta Chandan Raichaudhri |
| Cinematography | Ashok Mehta |
| Edited by | Shaktipada Roy |
Release date |
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Running time | 140 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Bengali |
Sati is a Bengali film released in 1989 written and directed by Aparna Sen. Based on a story by Kamal Kumar Majumdar,[1] the film is about A mute orphan girl who is married to a Banyan tree because her horoscope suggests that she would be a sati, and her husband would die. The film had Shabana Azmi and Arun Banerjee in lead roles.[2]
Along with her previous films, Parama (1984), Aparna Sen became the first female director in Bengali cinema to explore gender issues and feminist perspective.[3][4]
Synopsis[edit | edit source]
The young Brahmin girl (Shabana Azmi) in this story has a disastrous horoscope. In an Indian village in 1828, this can be a real handicap. The fact that she is mute only compounds her difficulties. Her horoscope predicts that she will become a widow at an early age. If this turns out as predicted, in addition to being bad luck for her prospective husbands, it is bad luck for her, as she will, according to the customs of the time, have to commit suttee, sati. That means she will have to be burned alive on her husband's funeral pyre. To avoid this fate, her family has hit upon the appealing stratagem of having her marry a banyan tree.
Cast[edit | edit source]
- Shabana Azmi — Uma (Umi)
- Arun Banerjee
- Kali Banerjee
- Pradip Mukherjee
- Arindam Ganguli
- Shakuntala Barua
- Laboni Sarkar
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Gulzar, Govind Nihalani, Saibal Chatterjee (2003). Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema: historical record, the business and its future, narrative forms, analysis of the medium, milestones, biographies. Popular Prakashan. p. 337. ISBN 81-7991-066-0. Retrieved 10 January 2009.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ "Aparna Sen Profile". Chaosmag, Indian Cinema Database. Archived from the original on 22 June 2015. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
- ↑ Nalini Natarajan; Emmanuel Sampath Nelson (1 January 1996). Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 420–. ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7.
- ↑ Geetha Ramanathan (1 January 2006). Feminist Auteurs: Reading Women's Films. Wallflower Press. pp. 110–. ISBN 978-1-904764-69-4.