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Synopsis
Bharat Mata (Mother India) was Indian filmmaker Mehboob Khan's remake of his own 1940 film Aurat (Woman). The intervening years had somewhat altered Mehboob's attitudes towards his characters and their surroundings. In the original Aurat, an Indian mother (Sardar Akhtar) suffers monumentally on behalf of her two sons, much to the disinterest of the rural community where she lives. In the remake, the mother (now played by Nargis) likewise suffers, but her plight now affects her entire village, even inspiring her neighbors to shed their own selfishness. What was once a wholly personal drama has been expanded to near-mythical dimensions. The ending, however, is still tragic, with the long-suffering heroine being forced to kill one of her own offspring to uphold the family's honor. Enormously popular in its native India, Bharat Mata remained in constant reissue throughout the next four decades. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Nargis
Sunil Dutt Birju

Production Crew

Naushad Composer (Music Score)
Mehboob Khan Director
Naushad Editor
Naushad Musical Direction/Supervision
Ali Raza Screenwriter
Year: 1957
Runtime: 152
Country: India
MPAA Rating:
Category: Feature

Genre
Drama
Epic

Color type
Technicolor

Produced by
Mehboob Productions

Release
by Columbia Pictures

Awards
1957 - Best Foreign Language Film - Academy
1957 - Best Foreign Language Film - Academy
1957 - Best Foreign Language Film - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie