| Author: kondapalli 23 May 2008 | Member Level: Gold | Rating:  Points: 2 |
may be lagaan am i correct
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| Author: Saranya 23 May 2008 | Member Level: Diamond | Rating: Points: 2 |
No... Try again!
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| Author: Anuj Kumar 23 May 2008 | Member Level: Gold | Rating: Points: 6 |
mother india
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| Author: sac 23 May 2008 | Member Level: Diamond | Rating: Points: 3 |
Mother India
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| Author: Saranya 23 May 2008 | Member Level: Diamond | Rating: Points: 2 |
Hi Anuj, Sac,
You are right.
Can you tel me the year?
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| Author: sac 23 May 2008 | Member Level: Diamond | Rating: Points: 6 |
1957
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| Author: Saranya 23 May 2008 | Member Level: Diamond | Rating: Points: 2 |
yes, you are absolutely right Sac.
Keep in up.
Regards,
Saranya...
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| Author: srinivas 23 May 2008 | Member Level: Gold | Rating: Points: 2 |
Lagaan is nominated first time but did not get it..
Even trying for it more.. to get in to it's
It's great thing to get in to it..
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| Author: Saranya 23 May 2008 | Member Level: Diamond | Rating: Points: 2 |
You are wrong Srinivas.
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| Author: TULASI KRISHNA 23 May 2008 | Member Level: Gold | Rating: Points: 1 |
MAY BE LAGAAN
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| Author: TULASI KRISHNA 23 May 2008 | Member Level: Gold | Rating: Points: 1 |
MAY BE LAGAAN
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| Author: TULASI KRISHNA 23 May 2008 | Member Level: Gold | Rating: Points: 1 |
MAY BE LAGAAN
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| Author: Saranya 24 May 2008 | Member Level: Diamond | Rating: Points: 2 |
No. Mother India is the right answer!
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| Author: Vidya 24 May 2008 | Member Level: Diamond | Rating: Points: 2 |
Mother India
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| Author: Saranya 25 May 2008 | Member Level: Diamond | Rating: Points: 2 |
Right Vidya.
Its already said many times here!
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| Author: Anuj Kumar 26 May 2008 | Member Level: Gold | Rating: Points: 2 |
in 1957
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| Author: TULASI KRISHNA 28 May 2008 | Member Level: Gold | Rating: Points: 2 |
yes vidya it is mother india in 1957
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| Author: Vedha 28 May 2008 | Member Level: Silver | Rating: Points: 2 |
Hmm.. Mother India. I've never heard of that movie. Who acted in it? What is the plot?
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| Author: Saranya 01 Jun 2008 | Member Level: Diamond | Rating: Points: 2 |
Thank you friends for your response.
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| Author: Saranya 01 Jun 2008 | Member Level: Diamond | Rating: Points: 2 |
Director:Mehboob Khan
Writers:Wajahat Mirza (dialogue)
S. Ali Raza (dialogue)
Release Date:14 February 1957 (India)
Tagline:The Indian 'Gone with the Wind'
Plot:The film begins with the finishing of a water canal to the village set in the present. Radha (Nargis)...
Awards:Nominated for Oscar. Another 6 wins
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| Author: Saranya 01 Jun 2008 | Member Level: Diamond | Rating: Points: 2 |
Mother India sits right at the top and shares the seat with just a handful of other movies as one of the best films ever made in Indian Film History. Deservedly, it also garnered an Oscar Nomination for Best Foreign Film - a first for Bollywood. Need I say more? Let me try...
Five years after her wedding, Radha, a regular village girl finds she has been abandoned by her husband (who leaves her in despair) and left to cope with his never-ending debt to Shuki Lal, the village "Munshi". To feed her children, Radha toils like a farm-animal and is able to save just enough food to eventually bring up her children. The injustice to and torture of their mother is interpreted in opposite ways by her children: while the elder Ramu is humble and just, the younger Birju who seethes with hatred for Sukhi Lal turns outlaw. While Radha tries to bring back Birju with love, Birju plans to finish Sukhi Lal's debt once and for all.
Mehboob Khan had made some good movies in his career, including a milestone first all-colour (technicolor) Bollywood feature. But nothing could have hinted at the brilliance to come in his waning years. Defying a very many stereotypes, his was the first major Hindi film with a female protagonist, a cowardly abandoning husband (how RajKumar, men of men, agreed for that role is another story), no definitive hero-heroine pairs, etc. He tells the 172-minute story in flash-back as a memory of an old Radha inaugurating irrigation canals in her village. Taking his titular heroine through happiness, desolation, compulsion and resignation, he transformed box-office darling Nargis into an actress nothing short of a legend. We see her go from an innocent bride to an anguished mother to a revered "Mother" of the village.
Nargis herself is most remembered for this career-defining and image-breaking portrayal (soon after which she married Sunil Dutt, who portrayed her bitter son Birju*). Sunil Dutt was a very under-rated actor, for the simple reason that all his great performances were never title characters, and were over-shadowed by more famous co-actors. His Birju is played with such realism and conviction that even today many comedians mimicking Sunil Dutt are actually mimicking Birju.
The director's production team does work beyond their era and workstyle to create the look of the people and place over time. From famine to flood for the backdrop, youth to old-age for Radha and from bright to dirty earthen to faded colours, the team wins complete involvement of the audience by filling our visual and audio sense with realism just next to reality. The director chose to spend more of his limited budget on these aspects, and in turn had to sacrifice on the equipment he could use to capture the sights and sounds that were being realised: the movie was made on 35mm and mono-sound.
Surprisingly, something I have noted as not being mentioned anywhere in literature connected to this movie is how without obviously being so, Mehboob created the most patriotic of Indian movies. The only give-away is in his choice of title Mother India. Depicting his motherland as a repressed and abandoned woman, and her children as peace-loving Gandhi-Ramu or rebellious Bose-Birju, Mehboob layers his movie with such fierce passion, it is impossible not to be overwhelmed by it.
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| Author: sobha wilson 01 Jun 2008 | Member Level: Diamond | Rating: Points: 2 |
i don't know
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| Author: TULASI KRISHNA 01 Jun 2008 | Member Level: Gold | Rating: Points: 2 |
good explanation madam saranya thanks
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| Author: Baljeet 01 Jun 2008 | Member Level: Diamond | Rating: Points: 1 |
I think it is Lagaan
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| Author: Saranya 05 Jun 2008 | Member Level: Diamond | Rating: Points: 2 |
Thank you Krishna.
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