As a new country, India was facing enormous poverty and the films of this era also spoke to this fact. This was an era in which Hindi cinema highlighted what ideal citizenship looked like for an average Indian. Mother India was released ten years after India’s independence from the United Kingdom. The story highlights sacrifice, virtue, honesty, and the role of women as mothers not just to their children but to land and the country. sole source of her family’s livelihood is a piece of land, whose rocky soil which makes it difficult to cultivate. Mother India tells the story of a woman named Radha, played by Nargis, whose husband leaves her as a result of poverty, forcing her to care for her two sons alone.
Mother India (1957) Film poster for Mother India (1957). Picking a “Top Ten” list from such a diverse category is a daunting task, so my colleague Abhijit Varde and I have each picked ten films from different genres that we consider contenders for the Top 10 Bollywood films. They are often musicals but can also lack any music at all.
They can have low production values or high production values. They can be artistic or cheaply commercial.
In recent decades, Bollywood has become popular across the world with sizeable audiences in East Asia, North America, Africa, and the Middle East.Īs films, Bollywood productions range widely. For example, only 300 of the roughly 2000 films produced in India in 2017 were Bollywood films. India’s multilingual status means that cinema is produced in several languages across the country. “Bollywood” is the name that the Anglophone press in India gave to Hindi-language cinema in the 1970s.
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