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Rudaali (pronounced "roo-dah-lee"; transl. Female weeper) [a] is a 1993 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Kalpana Lajmi, written by Lajmi and Gulzar and based on a 1979 short story of the same name by Bengali author Mahasweta Devi.
The Hindustani language employs a large number of profanities across the Hindi-speaking diaspora. Idiomatic expressions, particularly profanity, are not always directly translatable into other languages, and make little sense even when they can be translated. Many English translations may not offer the full meaning of the profanity used in the ...
Elizabeth Rose Freeman (born November 2, 1992) [1] is an American voice actress from Oklahoma City. [2] She is known for providing the English voices of Trish Una in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind, Chizuru Mizuhara in Rent-A-Girlfriend, Chisato Nishikigi in Lycoris Recoil, and the voice of Pomni in The Amazing Digital Circus.
Nautch dancers in Old Delhi, c. 1874 Nautch dancer in Calcutta, c. 1900 A Raja awaits the arrival of Nautch dancers A Nautch girl performing, 1862. The nautch (/ ˈ n ɔː tʃ /, meaning "dance" or "dancing" from Hindustani: "naach") [1] was a popular court dance performed by girls (known as "nautch girls") in later Mughal and colonial India. [2]
Mukhannath (مُخَنَّث; plural mukhannathun (مُخَنَّثون); "effeminate ones", "ones who resemble women") was a term used in Classical Arabic and Islamic literature to describe effeminate men or people with ambiguous sexual characteristics, [6] who appeared feminine and functioned sexually or socially in roles typically carried out by women. [8]
Writing for Scroll.in, Damini Kulkarni wrote, "Lekin draws a powerful analogy between a ghost frozen in time and a woman repeatedly victimised by men." [39] Meheli Sen, in her book Haunting Bollywood: Gender, Genre, and the Supernatural in Hindi Commercial Cinema labelled the film as an "iteration of the Gothic film". [40]
Zakhmi Aurat (English : Wounded Woman) is a 1988 Indian Hindi drama movie starring Dimple Kapadia and Raj Babbar and directed by Avtar Bhogal. Kapadia played Kiran Dutt, a police officer who is subject to gang rape and, when the judicial system fails to convict the criminals, unites with other rape victims to castrate the rapists in revenge.
Brahmachari. Brahmachari (transl. Celibate) is a 1938 black and white Marathi film.The film was directed by Master Vinayak and written by Pralhad Keshav Atre and starred Master Vinayak himself along with Meenakshi Shirodkar in lead roles.The film was also made in Hindi language.