Mother India

Name: Mother India
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ISBN: 9780851709178

ISBN-10: 0851709176

ISBN-13: 9780851709178

Edition: 2002

Authors: Gayatri Chatterjee

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Until recently, when satellite television changed viewing habits, Mehboob Khan's Mother India (1957) could boast the remarkable distinction of having been constantly in distribution in India since its first release. Nargis, one of India's great screen stars, plays Radha, an industrious and strong-willed peasant woman who faces a series of tribulations. Her husband is maimed in a farming accident and flees the family home. She is in thrall to a malevolent moneylender, who lusts after her. Tempests destroy her crops and her home. Of the two sons who survive with her, one grows up to be traditionally obedient while the other rages against his life in the village. Radha's final test comes when…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Publication date: 6/26/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English