Wednesday 23 January 2013

Landmark Films from the NFAI Collection - Mother India (1957)


Director : Mehboob Nargis
Cast : Sunil Dutt, Raaj Kumar, Rajendra Kumar, Kanhaiyalal, Jilloo, Kumkum, Master Sajid, Sitara Devi
Introduction
Internationally accalimed , it achieved an iconic status.  The film presents the nation as woman, but it also presents the woman as nation.  A model for many subsequent films, Mehboob Khan remade his 1940 film Aurat and immortalized Nargis in her role as Mother India.
She fights the survival match against natural and man-made calamities. It is the saga of an Indian woman who takes up all the burden and has to struggle against the fury of Nature and the whims of ordinary mortals with indomitable strength for a dignified existence. She can be humble and forgiving, she can be merciless.
Naushad brought the rural flavour into the music of this film.

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