Parched (2015)
3.8 of 5 from 46 ratings
1h 58min
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- Synopsis:
At 32, Rani (Tannishtha Chatterjee) has been a widow for half her life, and is mortgaging her future to pay for a dowry and wedding so her son, Gulab (Riddhi Sen), can have a beautiful wife: Janaki (Lehar Khan), a young girl from a neighboring village. Gulab is busy falling in with the wrong crowd, a group of young men in the village who fear the changes in the village's women that will come with progress—like education and access to resources - but are mostly interested in whores, booze, and growing into the shoes their fathers left behind. Rani's best friend is Lajjo (Radhika Apte), who desperately wishes for a child but can't conceive and is battered nightly by her alcoholic husband Manoj (Mahesh Balraj). Lajjo is also a skilled seamstress, and she and Rani, along with other women, work for a local entrepreneur Kishan (Sumeet Vyas) and are saving for the village to finally get a satellite and television - their first real connection to the outside world. The two women are friends with Bijli (Surveen Chawla, in a particularly strong performance), a dancer in a touring troupe who performs erotic dances nightly to cheering crowds of men, and also entertains clients made weak by desire... - Actors:
- Tannishtha Chatterjee, Radhika Apte, Surveen Chawla, Lehar Khan, Riddhi Sen, Chandan Anand, Mahesh Balraj, Sumeet Vyas, Nancy Nisa Beso, Daddi Pandey, Tanya Sachdeva, Adil Hussain, Farrukh Jaffar, Sayani Gupta, Dinesh Pradhan, Ramesh Ji, Shyam Panwar, Shilpi, Pooja Joshi, Kusum Awasthi
- Directors:
- Leena Yadav
- Writers:
- Supratik Sen, Leena Yadav
- Studio:
- Reliance Entertainment
- Genres:
- Bollywood, Drama
- Countries:
- India
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- Release Date:
- Unknown
- Run Time:
- 118 minutes