Talk:Rudaali

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Date	Process	Result
April 15, 2022	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on March 12, 2022.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Dimple Kapadia won the National Film Award for Best Actress for playing a professional mourner in the film Rudaali?

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Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 17:49, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Dimple Kapadia won the National Film Award for Best Actress for playing a professional mourner in the film Rudaali? Source: link
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mephistopheles & Margaretta

5x expanded by Shshshsh (talk). Self-nominated at 15:47, 16 February 2022 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article was expanded 5x before nomination, is long enough and looks very well sourced. The hook is cited and imo interesting. No copyvio on Earwig (there's some close matches but its all awards, quotes and names of organizations). qpq is done so this looks all ready to go. BuySomeApples (talk) 04:19, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

To T:DYK/P7

Books missing

@Shshshsh Two refs are missing for #27 Gokulsing 2004 and #56 Menon 2002. Could you find and them to bibliography section? — DaxServer (t · c) 20:52, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

DaxServer, thank you, for pointing this out. This has been taken care of now. I want to take it to GAN soon so it's good that you stopped by. Shahid • ^Talk2me 21:18, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Happy to help! Saw your DYK and pitched in. I'll do some more ce :) — DaxServer (t · c) 02:10, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Rudaali/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: FrB.TG (talk · contribs) 13:02, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Expect comments very soon.

Lead

"Raakhee, Raj Babbar, and Amjad Khan appear in supporting roles." I think this could be included after you introduce Kapadia as the lead and her role, unless it is one of "the common elements of mainstream Hindi cinema" as they are popular actors.
- After reading the themes section, I see that it's mainly because of the "mellifluous musical performances" and not the cast as well.
"..where Bhupen Hazarika was awarded for his music." WP:OL of Hazarika and just mentioning his surname would suffice.
I don't think you really need ref. 5 in the lead as it is already cited in the body, per WP:LEAD.

Plot

"Bhikni stays with the widow Shanichari, who lives in the Thakur's village" - is Thakur used to refer to Ramavtar Singh? If so, it should be clarified.
"50 rupees" - I think we might need an WP:NBSP here.

Cast

The plot calls Khan's character "Ramavtar Singh" while the cast says "Ram Avtar Singh".
The plot suggests that Rakhee's Bhikni was in fact Shanichari's mother, Peewli. Maybe this could be mentioned her as well? Something like "Rakhee as Bhikni / Peewli"?

Production

"According to author Priya Kapoor, "Lajmi's preference for popular.." I think this quote can easily be paraphrased, especially the beginning part.

Release and reception

"Im spite of this" - a typo?
The first two paragraphs mention the praises the film has garnered, then the third one is about a mixed review. Then we have a fourth para which is about foreign reviewers appreciating the film. Perhaps the third and fourth para could switch places so it would be a little more structured?

Awards and honours

"Screened at the International Film Festival of India, 1993, and the San Diego Film Festival, 1994." This is not a complete sentence.

This is very well-written and well-sourced. With some work, this could be nominated for FA. Once these comments are resolved, this should be good to go for GA. FrB.TG (talk) 10:26, 15 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@FrB.TG: I'm grateful for your review and for your excellent, constructive comments, all of which have been addressed. Thank you for taking the time to do this, Shahid • ^Talk2me 13:00, 15 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]