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Part of the British Film Institute’s Film Classics, a series which highlights 360 landmark films from throughout the world, this volume focuses on one of India’s enduring classics. Released in October 1957, Mother India remained in continuous circulation for almost four decades until the mid-‘90s. The film tells the story of Radha – daughter, wife, and mother – who becomes an almost mythological symbol of ultimate, incorruptible female strength and endurance in the face of deprivation and tragedy. A disjointed effort that could have used a fierce editing job, the book loosely weaves production history, biographies, film analysis and criticism, and post-release effects.

Review: “Diasporic Proliferation or: We’re Here, There and Everywhere … and Growing,” Push >, NAATA: National Asian American Telecommunications Center (now the Center for Asian American Media), 2002

Readers: Adult

Published: 2002