Sati | |
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Directed by | Aparna Sen |
Screenplay by | Aparna Sen Arun Banerjee |
Story by | Kamal Kumar Majumdar |
Produced by | NFDC |
Starring | Shabana Azmi |
Cinematography | Ashok Mehta |
Edited by | Shaktipada Roy |
Music by | Chidananda Das Gupta Chandan Raichaudhri |
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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]
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