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Now write your own film review on ‘Chak de India’, ‘Lagaan’, or ‘Mother India’.

The teacher could arrange for the screening of the film if need be.

The class could also decide on any other regional film that portrays the spirit on National Integration.

Highlight the aspect of national integration that has been portrayed in the film.

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Film Review of ‘Mother India’

Mehboob Khan’ ‘magnum opus’ ‘Mother India’ is perhaps the most appreciated, liked and respected among all the Indian films in and outside the country. The film idealises and celebrates the typical Indian woman—‘Mother India’. She can sacrifice her own most beloved son but not the ideals, values and traditions for which she lives and ***. The film exploded the silver-screen in 1957. It was produced and directed by Mehboob Khan. Music was given by the legendary Naushad Ali.

The framework of the film revolves round the injustices and exploitation suffered by a poor peasant family at the hands of a greedy and cruel moneylender, ‘Sukkhu lala’. The poor peasant can’t come out of the clutches of the moneylender even after selling his bullocks and mortgaging his land. In an accident, he loses his hands. His wife fights a long battle against the cruel moneylender who had his eyes on her and on her land. When his second son grows up he joins a group of dacoits to revenge the injustices of ‘Sukkhu lala’. He burns his house, account books and even him. He kidnaps his daughter from the ‘marriage–mandap’ and runs away. Here he encounters his mother on the way. She pleads him to free the bride. When he refuses to release her, the mother fires at him. She her own son with her own hands. Thus the mother sacrifices her own son to safeguard the honour and dignity of a woman.

Nargis plays the role of her life and immortalises herself as ‘Mother India’. Sunil Dutt as Birju and Rajkumar as the helpless peasant are superb. Rajender Kumar and Kumkum do justice with their roles. Kanahiya Lal is at his best in the role of ‘Sukkhu lala’. The music of Naushad is the soul of the film. Mehboob has proved once again that as a producer and directer of classy film he is second to none in the Bolywood.

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