Mother India

• Nargis as Radha
• Sunil Dutt as the adult Birju
• Sajid Khan as the young Birju
• Rajendra Kumar Ramu
• Raaj Kumar as Shamu
• Kanhaiyalal as Sukhil

Bharat Mata ( Hindi: भारत माता, to Bharat Mata, English: Mother India, dt: Mother India) is an Indian film directed by Mehboob Khan in 1957 He is one of the most financially successful classics of Indian film and was the first film of his country., which was nominated for an Oscar.

Action

Radha and Shamu marry. To equip the new daughter due, the mother takes money to the moneylenders Sukhi. And this burden can not be borne, and also just because no one can read in the village except the money lender, the exorbitant interest writes into the contract. Are 3/4 of the land mortgaged or only 1/4? The documents Sukhis can not say anything. The family is groaning under the weight to be born as four children. But she does not give up and even tried to manage stony ground in order to pay the interest can.

It always comes back to conflicts with Sukhi, and it is never resolved whether this loan because now is fraud or usury only, or both. But no matter how much the nature, people and Sukhi seek to destroy the family, the mother Radha is not on, educates their children with love and yet can not prevent hatred grows they never sowed. No matter how much the nature and people take Radhu, one they can not take her, her honor as a woman, as a mother and person in the community.

Topic

Be addressed poverty and pride, honor and injustice. In the center of the film, however, is mainly the strength of the mother as a link to the family and society in an Indian company, in which the woman was sometimes viewed as an accessory to the spouse.

Background

Director Mehboob Khan created with this film a remake of his own epic film Aurat from the year 1940. Nargis and her " movie son " Sunil Dutt married in 1959, their child is Sanjay Dutt.

Awards

In addition to the Oscar nomination, the film won five Filmfare Awards.