Mother India
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Kanhaiyalal, Nargis, Raaj Kumar, Rajendra Kumar, Sunil Dutt DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Subtitled) Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled Running Time: 163 minutes DVD Release Date: 2003-02-25 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Eros |
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Movie Reviews of Mother India
Movie Review: GREAT MOVIE, BAD DVD TRANSFER
Summary: 2 Stars
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.