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  • 2002
  • Not Rated
  • Digital Entertainment (DEI)
  • 2 h 52 m
  • 2002
  • Not Rated
  • Digital Entertainment (DEI)
  • 2 h 52 m
Mother India

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 Cent...

Directed By: Mehboob Khan

Written By: Wajahat Mirza, S. Ali Raza

  • 2002
  • Not Rated
  • Digital Entertainment (DEI)
  • 2 h 52 m
  • 2002
  • Not Rated
  • Digital Entertainment (DEI)
  • 2 h 52 m

Mother India

Metascore Mixed or Average
53
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
6.2
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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 Cent...

Directed By: Mehboob Khan

Written By: Wajahat Mirza, S. Ali Raza

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 4 Critic Reviews
53
25% Positive
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50% Mixed
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25% Negative
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The most popular film in Indian history.
FULL REVIEW
60
The performances are broad; the comedy is mainly slapstick. The politics are nationalist and vaguely left-wing.
By J. Hoberman FULL REVIEW
60
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.
By Dave Kehr FULL REVIEW
20
More of a curio than a classic and it takes the strongest of constitutions to endure this film without entertaining notions of matricide
By Phil Hall FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
6.2
67% Positive
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33% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
6.2
67% Positive
4 Ratings
0% Mixed
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33% Negative
2 Ratings

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Production Company Mehboob Productions
Release Date Aug 23, 2002
Duration 2 h 52 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Filmfare Awards
• 5 Wins & 5 Nominations
National Film Awards, India
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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