Mother India (Region Free)

A classic tale of an Indian woman
Certificate: U
Running Time: 175 mins
Retail Price: $0
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Content Type: Movie

Synopsis:
In a small rural Indian village a congregation of people is waiting for the inauguration of a newly built water pump, which is to be done by Radha (Nargis). The villagers respect Radha as she has preserved the honour of the village and the honour of Indian womanhood. Radha, an elderly person, begins to remember her past…

Married and living a cheerful life Radha with her husband (Raaj Kumar) and three small children plough the fields of the rural India in order to survive. However due to an accident her husband loses both his arms, and when he begins to feel useless, as it smidgen his manhood and what he represents, he abandons the family never to be seen again.

Radha is left to pay off the debts owed to moneylender Sukhilala (Kanhaiyalal), she also has to fend of Sukhilala’s sexual pressures and both prove to be a hard task. On her own she begins to plough the fields herself, and over the years people in the village respect her for what she has done. During a flood storm one of her son dies, Radha mourns over the lost but for the sake of the other two sons she carries it like a stone in her heart and continues to work.

Years later her sons Ramu (Rajendra Kumar) and Birju (Sunil Dutt) grow up. But while Ramu is the darling of Radha, Birju is a rebel, and soon things go wrong for Birju who becomes a bandit and only uses violence as a means of resort. When he learns that a woman he likes is to be married Birju goes to abduct her. But Radha stands there with a gun and warns her son not to do this. Birju carries the woman on his horse and only then Radha, with heartache, shoots Birju which proves to be fatal.

At the inauguration of the water pump we see a brittle old woman called Radha, but deep down we see a strong independent Indian woman that we all come to know as Mother India, the physical representation of the Indian soil…

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