The Extended Canon
Rudaali
रुदाली · 1993
A woman who has never been able to cry is trained as a professional mourner at other people's funerals.
- Director
- Kalpana Lajmi
- Year
- 1993
- Genre
- Drama
- Cast
- Dimple Kapadia, Raakhee, Raj Babbar
Why it's in the canon
Dimple Kapadia's greatest performance, and Bhupen Hazarika's 'Dil Hoom Hoom Kare'.
A woman who has never been able to cry is trained as a professional mourner at other people's funerals.
Rudaali sits in the 1990s alongside Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and Satya — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Kalpana Lajmi.
- Released in 1993, in the 1990s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama.
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Film record Wikipedia — Rudaali (1993) · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one
Editorial Inclusion in the extended canon, unranked — not a measurement · last revised 9 August 2026 · signed by Amit Sharma · the scoring is published in full so the machinery can be argued with, not just the result
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