The Story Archive

Mother India

Mehboob Khan · 1957 CE · Film · Indian · Contemporary

Radha marries into her husband's family debt and is left to work the land alone with two young sons and the moneylender's ledger against her. Flood and famine come; one son grows up patient in the same yoke, the other refuses to accept what she accepts. A new nation cast as an enduring mother.

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