Mother India

Starring:Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar, Raaj Kumar, Kanhaiyalal, Jilloo Maa, Kumkum, Chanchal, Sheela Naik, Mukri, Siddiqui, Ram Shastri, Fakir Mohammad, Geeta, Hameeda, Master Surendra, Mastan, Nawab Khan, Master Alec, Sitara Devi
Director: Mehboob Khan
Studio: Eros
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Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor.......2007-03-08

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Earth And High Heaven
The grievous reality!
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Classical Movie from India

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Starring: Nargis , Sunil Dutt , Rajendra Kumar , Raaj Kumar , and Kanhaiyalal
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Hum Aapke Hain Koun...!

ASIN: B00008IAJR
Release Date: 2003-02-25

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Buy the Video.......2006-05-21

A while ago, I got rid of my VCR and put in a DVD player in my computer. I re-purchased almost all the films I had in DVD format.

This movie is one of the great classics of world cinema and is a must view. Why am I rating it only 3 stars? The DVD transfer is AWFUL. I sorely regret having given away my VHS copy; it was much better.

Buy the VHS.

Earth And High Heaven.......2005-10-07

It's kind of like GONE WITH THE WIND, and it's sort of like THE GOOD EARTH, and even a bit like EAST OF EDEN, but really MOTHER INDIA is its own thing, one of the loci classici of so-called "Bollywood."

The young screen star Radha Mitchell (PITCH BLACK, NEVERLAND, MELINDA AND MELINDA) was named after the longsuffering heroine, Radha in this movie, as Scarlett Johanson was similarly named after the heroine of GONE WITH THE WIND. Perhaps that's why Woody Allen was attracted to them both and employed them in recent films. He was reaching back into old epic roots and didn't even know it.

Radha is a young maiden in India whose mother entangles her into a scheme whereby a local moneylender would pay for the cost of her wedding, but in the process, like Shylock, he comes to "own" the whole family and causes them pain for generations to come. The mother is not a simpleton, more like a Lillian Gish type, and besides, we get the picture that this is just how things were done back then, and that dowries and fancy weddings were everything to these people. The action switches to the birth and development of Radha's two little boys, Ramu and Birju, who grow and mature during the film, and struggle against the age-old curse of the moneylender, who nows owns everything (like the carpetbaggers in GONE WITH THE WIND).

The only thing that you've ever seen in Western cinema to compare it to fairly would be Michael Powell's GONE TO EARTH with Jennifer Jones (sometimes called THE WILD HEART). Jennifer Jones, perhaps Susan Hayward, is the only Hollywood star with emotional power enough to have conveyed, maybe, Radha's metonymic attachment to land and family. Alas she never got a chance to perform in the cinema of Bombay! It's all about melodrama, music, dance, spectacle, heart and something else, something that can't be pinned down. Recommended with a plus sign, and two such signs should you ever have had a mother or a country.

The grievous reality!.......2005-02-14

Haunting film and painful portrait of Indian in those fifties. Ferocious critique of the caste's system that rules the life of Indian people through the traps employed by a swindler band to cheat illiterate persons.

A brave film made with honesty, courage and honour, nominated as Best Foreign Film in 1957.

GREAT MOVIE, BAD DVD TRANSFER.......2003-07-10

Mother India was the first movie from India to be nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category in 1957 (if I'm not mistaken). It's a three-hour epic, with musical numbers atypical of the Bollywood films. It's also the tragic tale of a woman's struggle to raise her children amidst poverty, inhumanity, greed, corruption, and the destructive forces of nature. The weakness of the story is that it tries to be everything: drama, comedy, social realism, a MUSICAL, an EPIC, etc., which makes the middle part of the film so weak. When the children, the two sons, grow into manhood their scenes have too much of a farcical look and feel that, eventually, turns tragic. Yet, what holds it all together is the tremendous performance of the female protagonist. Some of the cinematography is breathtaking, especially when the sky dwarfs the people in Gone With the Windesque style. Unfortunately the film has not been cleaned up (restored) for this DVD, and it has myriad lines, dots, etc. A couple of scenes go briefly out of focus. For the price I paid, I thought I would be getting a more pristine version. It's just basically a video tape on DVD, and a bad copy at that!!! Which is a shame, because it's an astonishing film despite its weaknesses. Once I resigned myself to the fact that I was not going to be enjoying a tecnically superior version of the film on DVD, and had to settle for what it is, I didn't feel too ripped off because the story can be quite compelling. Had I known, however, that the quality of this DVD was so mediocre, I would not have bought it. But the movie is definitely an experience and deserves 5 stars.

Classical Movie from India.......2003-07-09

Radha (Nargis) now an old woman remembers her past. She remembers her married life. The family has to work extremely hard to pay off the moneylender Sukhilala (Kanhaiyalal). Her husband (Raj Kumar) loses both his arms in an accident and feeling useless abandons the family. Alone, Radha has to raise her children while fending off financial as well as sexual pressures from Sukhilala. One son dies in a flood, and in later years one son Ramu (Rajendra Kumar) grows to be a dutiful son while the other Birju (Sunil Dutt) becomes a rebel committed to direct, violent action. Finally to preserve the honour of the village, Radha puts an end to Birju's rebellious activities by shooting him down.
Mother India is the ultimate tribute to Indian Womanhood! This epic saga of the sufferings of an Indian peasant woman has an inherent and perennial appeal, being typical of the Indian situation. So tremendous was its success that the film is in fact a reference point in the long-suffering mother genre and is like an Indian Gone With the Wind (1939).

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Release Date: 2006-09-22

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Starring: NARGIS, SUNIL DUTT, RAJENDRA KUMAR, RAJ KUMARSynopsis: From India, the cradle of the Gods, comes this epic drama of an Indian mother, the nucleus round which revolves the tradition and culture of the ages in this ancient land. In India, every woman is an integral part of a man. With marriage she merges her individuality into her husband's and both together form a single entity in society. One without the other is but half the story of an eternal harmony going beyond a single birth and through seven births as the Indian scriptures say. A woman's marriage is thus an eternal spiritual bond and in her absolute dedication to her husband, her single prayer is to die in the presence of her husband and be carried out by him even as a bride in death. To this eternal Indian woman, the home is her temple, the husband her god, the children his blessings and the land her great mother. This a story of one such Indian woman, a supreme symbol of millions of mothers that make this ancient land Mother India.

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The Indian Culture Will Sweep You Away!
The final experience!
Emotionally strong and eloquent movie
Profound conclusion as Apu becomes a man

The World of Apu
Starring: Soumitra Chatterjee , Sharmila Tagore , Alok Chakravarty , Swapan Mukherjee , and Dhiresh Majumdar
Director: Satyajit Ray
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If you ever feel like you've got it tough, watch the Apu trilogy by Satyajit Ray. The World of Apu is the third story in Ray's magnum opus. And yes... things can get worse for our hero, Apu (Soumitra Chatterjee). By now it's the early 1930s, and Apu is a grown man. A dreamer and a writer like his long-dead father, Apu is working on a novel about his life.

When his best friend Pulu (Swapan Mukherjee) asks him to his sister's wedding, Apu has no idea that he'll be the one going home with the bride. Poor Aparna (Sharmila Tagore) is betrothed to an insane man and when his illness becomes apparent, the wedding is cancelled. But Aparna will be cursed unless another bridegroom is found. Apu, in a weak moment, agrees to marry Aparna in return for a job.

Then the unexpected happens. Aparna and Apu fall deeply in love. But will it last? Knowing Apu's luck in the past, the obvious answer is "no," and when Aparna dies in childbirth, Apu is left hating his son, Kajal. Finally, driven by guilt, Apu approaches his son, five years after the death of his beloved wife. Will they be able to salvage some happiness in an already too bleak life? You won't be disappointed in the outcome.

This last installment will leave you wishing Ray had made Apu IV. The music is by Ravi Shankar. --Luanne Brown

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In this final installment, Apu is forced to abandon his education. His future looks bleak until he marries an abandoned bride, beginning a new life as a husband and a father. Written and directed by award-winning filmmaker Satyajit Ray. Named 1960's Best Foreign Film by the National Board of Review.

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fantastic film!.......2007-03-22

THE WORLD OF APU is the third in the "Apu Trilogy," by the late, great Indian filmmaker, Satyajit Ray.
This film follows the title character, Apu, as a young, un-employed writer (Soumitra Chatterjee), who is searching for work, all the while aspiring to write his first novel. Pulu (Swapan Mukherjee), Apu's best friend from secondary school, has a beautiful young cousin, Aparna (Shamila Tagore), who is engaged to be married. Pulu invites Apu to attend the wedding, only to discover the day of the ceremony that the groom is a madman. Apu is asked to marry the bride, since the wedding day is auspicious and if she doesn't get married at the decided day and time, she is destined to have a life filled with bad luck and unhappiness. Though Apu has never even been in a relationship with a woman, he agrees to marry Aparna to do (as he says) "the honorable thing."

This film takes a look at Apu, his life's struggles and hard deck of cards that life has cast his way. I don't want to ruin the plot details, so I won't elaborate. I will say that the performances are beautiful and the story is wonderfully told. It is at once heartbreaking and inspiring. Highly reccomended......

The Indian Culture Will Sweep You Away!.......2006-12-15

Thanks to a pristine Indian audience, Satyrajit Ray (1921-92) created a trilogy where a ballet-like adagio becomes an art. In this, the 1959 epilogue of our hero Apu's coming of age, Apu is swept away by misfortune, and allows ethical decisions to be made for him. Perhaps paralleling the pacifist role India has played throughout her long life, Apu permits himself to become betrothed to a woman whose fiance is unfit for marriage. Apu steps in and accepts the challenge. Why not? He is at a standstill in his writing career and feels like a poverty-stricken failure with a beautiful face.

His new bride is not only sublimely gorgeous, with those big eyes the filmmaker Ray lovingly caresses, but she comes from incomparable wealth. Their arranged marriage becomes a temple of love, told tenderly with nary a touch between them. Echoing their temporary paradise the camera lingers on grassy landscapes of rural India, while Ravi Shankar's haunting sitar music flows in the background.

In the final scene, the couple's son, a 5-year-old, as playful, mischievous (he throws rocks) and inquisitive as his own father, rides Apu's shoulders in victory. Triumph shines over the appalling take-us-by surprise tragedies that pierce the film. The joyful moment of father and son striding confidently into the Big City reinforces the name and motif of the trilogy: The Unvanquished.

The final experience!.......2006-06-22

The last Opus of Satyajit Ray conforms together with the other two entries, a memorable and historical achievement in cinema `s story. Satyajit' s clever employment of the camera as a vehicle to express unsaid expressions, feelings and inner motivations is simply inimitable.

We are in front of one of the truest giants of this art, so mischievously used roughly in the actuality. Specially if we take into account the herald in what concerns to the expressive possibilities of the camera as an eye to scrutinize emotions or livings, was precisely, forgotten Titan, the unforgettable D.W. Griffith, one of filmmakers who influenced with major punch to Ray in his early youth.

After having lost his mother, Apu must undertake by himself, the demanded journey, he leaves his town and to make his dreams come true. But as we know, the life has by far a bigger imagination than us, and a apparently good action in order to avoid a familiar disgrace, he will open the great gate of the experience.

Plenty of poetic images, ravishing landscapes and a very touching script, Apu at last will understand what books can not offer; the experience by itself, and that will be a very rewarding living lesson.

If you really love the cinema, you should try to get this Trilogy, because these three films are included in any prestigious list of expert connoisseurs and specialized critics.

An authentic landmark.

Emotionally strong and eloquent movie.......2006-03-14

The third and final installment of Satyajit Ray's Apu trilogy, it's about a young idealistic man who learns about reality and responsibility. Apu is a writer living (and starving) in Calcutta. With a friend he attends a wedding, but when the bridegroom goes insane, the wedding is called off. Apu, thinking he's doing a noble deed, marries the girl. Things between them look dubious at first, but they grow to love each other very much. When she dies in childbirth he sinks into deep depression and spends five years wandering around India like a hermit. But he has a son and though he thinks of abandoning him, he comes home finally to raise him. It's a very touching and moving film, and in it's quiet way, very emotional. Soumitra Chatterji is wonderful as Apu, and Sharmila Tagore is openly expressive as his wife. Seeing Apu with his son on his shoulders at the end of the movie is powerfully uplifting. One of the great movies in world cinema.

Profound conclusion as Apu becomes a man .......2005-07-27

If you have gone this far as to view all three of the Apu trilogy, you may have gathered some insight into the work of internationally known director Satyajit Ray who died in 1992. Born into a family of intellectuals, he was passionate about film at a young age and inspired by the greatest of directors, including neorealism filmmaking of Vitorrio de Sica.

Ray explored human relationships from various angles; use of some non-actors, on-location, and use of little dialogue. Ray is said to have known what the face of his characters would look like before the actor/nonactor was hired. His trait was to scour for those memorable faces. Another aspect of Ray's is the varying themes encompassed in the nearly 40 films, documentaries and short stories. Themes dealt with life and death; traditional vs. modern values; villages vs city; tragedy, fantasy vs. reality, youth vs. aging; etc.

The World of Apu, (1959) named best foreign film of 1960 is the third of a trilogy, and focuses on Apu, now a man, writer, husband and father. If you have not seen the other two, do so before this one. "Pather Panchali" begins with his birth while "Aparajito" follows him through his education and further family hardships. Although the films were made in the mid-to-late 50s, the earliest depicts the mid 20s.

Apu is forced to abandon his education. By chance, he marries a beautiful woman, Aparna, who was cursed on her wedding day because her family would not allow her to marry her intended groom. He is either insane or with some retardation. Apu reluctantly marries her and falls deeply in love with her and she lives with him in his shabby existence.

She leaves for her homeland to give birth to a son and Apu is absent for the birth. She dies and for 5 years, he blames and rejects the child because of her death.

It is here that Apu makes a decision of live, to harbor feelings on the love he lost, or his desire or willingness to re-gain a son he blamed for Aparna's death.

To enjoy the depth of Apu's world, see the first two films of this trilogy, and if you embody foreign film by acclaimed filmmakers, you may feel the need to learn more about Satyajit Ray, because, sadly, the DVD has no commentary on the film. .....MzRizz

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Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor.......2007-03-08

My family LOVED this movie! My kids age 5-17 were glued to the TV for this very inspiring, worthwile show. I would recommend it to everyone!

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