Sati is a Bengali film released in 1989 written and directed by Aparna Sen. Based on a story by Kamal Kumar Majumdar,[1] the film is about A mute orphan girl who is married to a Banyan tree because her horoscope suggests that she would be a sati, and her husband would die.

The film had Shabana Azmi and Arun Banerjee in lead roles.

[2] Along with her previous films, Parama (1984), Aparna Sen became the first female director in Bengali cinema to explore gender issues and feminist perspective.

[3][4] The young Brahmin girl (Shabana Azmi) in this story has a disastrous horoscope.

To avoid this fate, her family has hit upon the appealing stratagem of having her marry a banyan tree.