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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 100

The essentials

Film record Wikipedia — Mammo (1994) · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one

Editorial Inclusion in the extended canon, unranked — not a measurement · last revised 9 August 2026 · signed by Amit Sharma · the scoring is published in full so the machinery can be argued with, not just the result

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