Overview
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.
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Aparna SenScreenplay
- Arun BannerjeeScreenplay
- Kamal Kumar MajumdarOriginal Story
- Original title
- সতী
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 23, 1989
- Original language
- Bengali
- Countries
- India
Production
Cast
Shabana AzmiUma
Arun BannerjeeNabin, school teacher
Kali BannerjeeGanga Charan
Pradip MukherjeeHari Charan
Arindam GangulyKali Charan
Shakuntala BaruaSabitri
Ratna GhoshalNabin's wife
Ketaki DuttaGanga Charan's widow- Menaka Das
- Ajit Banerjee
- Bimal Deb
Monu MukherjeeMr. Dutta- Deepankar Raha
- Balai Mukhopadhyay
- Mithu Chattopadhyay
Subrata Sensharma- Tandrima Banerjee
- Krishna Mitra
- Prabha Shreebastab
Laboni SarkarPushpo
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