Sati (1989)
সতী
Uma, a mute Brahmin girl, lives with her uncle's family as she is an orphan. Since Uma has a faulty horoscope which indicate widowhood, the family finds it impossible to get her married off. According to a custom prevalent at the time, Uma is given in marriage to a tree.
- Date of release
- 1989-11-23
- TMDB
- 8.6 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 2h 20m
- Genres
- History, Drama
- Director
- Aparna Sen
Casting
- Shabana Azmi — Uma
- Arun Bannerjee — Nabin, school teacher
- Kali Bannerjee — Ganga Charan
- Pradip Mukherjee — Hari Charan
- Arindam Ganguly — Kali Charan
- Shakuntala Barua — Sabitri
- Ratna Ghoshal — Nabin's wife
- Ketaki Dutta — Ganga Charan's widow
- Menaka Das
- Ajit Banerjee
- Bimal Deb
- Monu Mukherjee — Mr. Dutta
Interesting facts
Sati is a Bengali film released in 1989 written and directed by Aparna Sen. 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.
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