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Sati / directed by Aparna Sen.
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Sen, Aparna, 1945- Director.
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- Bengali
- Subjects (All):
- Feature films.
- Foreign films--India.
- Foreign films.
- Marriage--Drama.
- Marriage.
- Indian motion pictures.
- Mute persons--Drama.
- Mute persons.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (111 min.).
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu, HI : Asia Pacific Films, 1989.
- Language Note:
- In Benga.
- Original language in Benga.
- Summary:
- 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 strategem of having her marry a banyan tree.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Oct. 2, 2013).
- Won 1989 Montréal World Film Festival Special Mention of the Jury
- OCLC:
- 865004509
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