60 Years of Mother India
2 min readOct 25, 2017
60 Years of Mother India; (25–10–1957)
Mother India is a 1957 epic drama film, directed by #MehboobKhanand starring Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar, and #RaajKumar. A remake of Khan’s earlier film Aurat (1940), it is the story of a poverty-stricken village woman named Radha (Nargis) who, in the absence of her husband, struggles to raise her sons and survive against a cunning money-lender amidst many troubles. Despite her hardship, she sets a goddess-like moral example of an ideal Indian woman.
