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All time classic
By: sam1 Member's photo available | Dec 18, 2000 06:00 PM 
Mother India a all time classic from Mehboob Khan is my favourite. The role of Nargis went on to become the most sought after role in indian movie industry,with every actress trying to do once in their life the role which Nargis palyed in Mother India. The...
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Musical Masterpiece
By: Raj.J | Jan 01, 2003 11:19 AM 
Mother India is the much acclaimed epic musical of Indian cinematic history. The first Bollywood production to be nominated for the best forerign film at theOscars. Mother India is a celebration of Indian culture and virtues, that ignites flames of human...
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Bhaarat Mata ki jai!
By: rekh Member's photo available | Jun 30, 2003 02:36 PM 
I was reading an article on directors choice of the best film in Indian cinema & the one that all agreed upon was Mehboob Khan’s magnum opus, Mother India, a film released in 1957, greatly lauded by both the public & critics. I was surprised...
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Mother India
By: bhushan28 Member's photo available | Aug 25, 2003 04:20 PM 
Mehboob Khan’s Mother India. The most prominent film to come out of Indian cinema’s .Mother India follows a peasant woman through the trials and tribulations of poverty, debt, and starvation. Mother India opens with old Radha (Nargis)...
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Mother India ''Bharat Mata''
By: Aan2 | Jul 14, 2004 02:57 AM 
When watching this movie, you’d forget its a Bollywood masala. The grand magnum opus that almost granted India’s first ever Oscar, was created by a director who was very much familiar with village life, Mehboob Khan himself. Mehboob blends...
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An ode to Mother India
By: whitedevil | Dec 26, 2004 11:02 PM 
Legends are not the result of accidents ? they are created by geniuses, special people for whom the creation of the masterpiece is the only reason-de-etat of being in the profession. If this is true for all forms of art, it?s also true for the greatest...
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Mother India - the Film Review
By: niraj_chartered Member's photo available | Feb 15, 2006 03:56 PM 
Mother India- the film Heralded as India’s Gone with the Wind, Mother India is indeed a Bollywood blockbuster of epic proportions on a kin with David O’Selznick’s 1939 classic. Considered by many as the cornerstone of Indian commercial cinema and described...
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mother India
By: atul_bits Member's photo available | May 11, 2006 02:11 PM 
Mehboob Khan’s Mother India (1957) is Hindi cinema’s seminal epic about a grassroots-level Indian family whose fate forever hangs on the caprice of several obdurate forces. As the film’s publicity said: ’’The grain of rice on your table does not tell...
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''Maa Tujhe Salaam''
By: mbfarookh Star Writer | May 11, 2006 08:19 PM 
“Woman is the builder and moulder of a nation’s destiny. Though soft and delicate as a lily she has a heart far stronger, and bolder than that of any man.”How apt the saying is when viewed in the context of the evergreen film “Mother...
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Mother's Day Special...
By: zubin1 Member's photo available | May 14, 2006 01:37 AM 
When I was born, my parents had already seen this classic. So I intended seeing it a couple of times myself usually saw it on old DoorDarshan in early/mid 80s and then on CD. So here is the product... Story - Line Radha (Nargis) now an old...
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First, Happy Mother’s Day To All Women (Mothers & To-be Mothers) Here & Everywhere! Mother’’s Day Review: ’Mother India’: A Glorious Tribute of Epic-Proportion to The Greatness of All Mothers! Introduction: Universally,...
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Love you Moms
By: shaheen_malim | May 21, 2006 01:22 PM 
’’Love you Moms’’ ............ when was the last time you uttered these words to your mom............ More than a week ?????? Time to watch .. Mother India . I have realised the importance of a MOTHER in my life upon watching this movie .It truly will...
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matru bhumi
By: nathlahar | Jun 01, 2006 10:23 PM 
Mother India’’ is a remake of Mehboob Khan’s earlier film ’’Aurat’’ (1940) and was the first Indian film to be nominated for an Oscar (Best Foreign Film) in 1958. In the canon of Indian cinema, it’s a classic. About to inaugurate a new water pump for...
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MOTHER INDIA
By: rajesh | Nov 11, 2000 03:35 PM 
I think I don’t need to give any introduction about this movie at all. A classic from Mehoob Khan, with Nargis giving a performance that could not be match till now. Actually it’s remake of Mehoob Khan earlier film Aurat that was made way back in 50’s.The...
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Face of Indian Cinema
By: vikaschndr Member's photo available | May 11, 2006 03:48 PM 
Mother India, I had heard a lot about this movie, that its the best of indian cinema etc. etc... but last year only i got the chance to watch it. As I was used to the colour movies, this black n white seems very odd to me and it started like any...
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