Bangla Movie With English Subtitle.

Direction & Screenplay: Aparna Sen
Cast: Shabana Azmi, Kali Bannerjee, Pradeep Mukherjee
Cinematography: Ashok Mehta
Music: Chidananda Das Gupta

This film is set in the early nineteenth century; right before the practice of the Hindu custom called Sati (wife sacrificing herself on her dead husband's funeral pyre) was outlawed.

Uma is a mute orphaned woman considered unfit for marriage by an orthodox Brahmin society. She is compelled to marry a banyan tree because of a faulty astrological chart. The title Sati is symbolic of the fate of a mute orphan married off to a tree.