‘Mother India’, the film was released on October 25, 1957. I was only 9 years old. It was producer-director Mehboob Khan’s blockbuster, of epic proportions that was called India’s Gone With the Wind. The film was a remake of Mehboob Khan’s film Aurat, released in 1940. Mother India was nominated for the Academy Award for [...]
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