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Mother India (1957)

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Nargis

Radha
Sunil Dutt

Birju
Rajendra Kumar

Ramu
Raaj Kumar

Shamu
Sajid Khan

Young Birju

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Release Date

14 February 1957

Genre

Drama, Musical, Family

Country

India

Filming Locations

Arthan, Surat, India

Language

Hindi

Sound Mix

Mono

Color

Film Type

Feature

Film Class

Melodrama, Rural Drama

Niche Genre

Epic

Themes

Mothers and Sons, Down on Their Luck, Single Parents

Tones

Sweeping, Compassionate, Poignant

Wikipedia

Mother India is a 1957 Hindi film epic, written and directed by Mehboob Khan and starring Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar and Raaj Kumar. The film, a melodrama, is a remake of Mehboob Khan's earlier film, Aurat (1940). It is the story of a poverty-stricken village woman named Radha who, amid many other trials and tribulations, struggles to raise her sons and survive against an evil money-lender. Despite her hardship, she sets a goddess-like moral example of what it means to be an Indian woman, yet kills her own criminal son at the end for the greater moral good. She represents India as a nation in the aftermath of independence.