The Extended Canon
Mammo
मम्मो · 1994
An elderly woman comes from Pakistan to live with her sister's family in Bombay, and her visa runs out.
- Director
- Shyam Benegal
- Year
- 1994
- Genre
- Drama
- Cast
- Farida Jalal, Surekha Sikri, Amit Phalke
Why it's in the canon
Farida Jalal's National Award, and the most human portrait of what a border does to a family.
An elderly woman comes from Pakistan to live with her sister's family in Bombay, and her visa runs out.
Mammo sits in the 1990s alongside Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and Satya — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Shyam Benegal — also responsible for Manthan, Ankur, Bhumika.
- Released in 1994, in the 1990s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama.
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