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Ranked #4 of 100
Mother India
मदर इंडिया · 1957
A woman drags a village out of famine and debt, then shoots her own son for its honour. India's first Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
- Director
- Mehboob Khan
- Year
- 1957
- Genre
- Drama
- Cast
- Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar
Why it's at number 4
The founding myth of the post-Independence nation, told through one woman's spine.
A woman drags a village out of famine and debt, then shoots her own son for its honour. India's first Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
Mother India sits in the 1950s alongside Pyaasa and Awaara — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Mehboob Khan.
- Released in 1957, in the 1950s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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