Mother India

Name: Mother India
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical
Released: August 23, 2002
Duration: 172 min
Rating: 53

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Digital Entertainment (DEI) | Release Date: August 23, 2002

Summary: Mehboob Khan's 1957 grand drama of epic passions and colorful pageantry stars the great Nargis as Radha, one of the cinema's greatest heroines, who resists modernizations, temptations, natural disasters and threats of all varieties in order to raise her children on her own and hold on to her husband's land. (Film Society of Lincoln Center)

Director: Mehboob Khan

Genre(s): Drama, Family, Musical

Runtime: 172 min

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not credited)

The most popular film in Indian history. Read full review

J. Hoberman

The performances are broad; the comedy is mainly slapstick. The politics are nationalist and vaguely left-wing. Read full review

Dave Kehr

The film is at once a sort of Indian "Stella Dallas," which finds the heroine making sacrifice after sacrifice on behalf of her family, and a "Gone With the Wind"-style epic of social change. Read full review

Phil Hall

More of a curio than a classic and it takes the strongest of constitutions to endure this film without entertaining notions of matricide Read full review

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May 11, 2011

Arguably, and I say that because Bollywood has changed from this movie to the present day. Mother India has been bashed by critics, however, this is the Greatest Bollywood Movie, and perhaps one of the best Foreign Films known to man. Had we used sources from India, they would say the same.Arguably, and I say that because Bollywood has changed from this movie to the present day. Mother India has been bashed by critics, however, this is the Greatest Bollywood Movie, and perhaps one of the best Foreign Films known to man. Had we used sources from India, they would say the same. The movie possesed everything a great drama needs, but it had something special to make it a spectacular drama, the theme of motherhood, fittingly, for the name. The movie appears simple, but the few elements present in the movie make it hard to beat for any Drama Film known.… Expand

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