Bharat Mata(1957)
Mehboob Khans Bharat Mata aus dem Jahre 1957 ist einer der einflussreichsten und populärsten Hindi-Filme. Er zeigt das Leben, das durch Ausbeutung geprägt ist, armer Menschen auf dem Land.
Mehboob Khans Bharat Mata aus dem Jahre 1957 ist einer der einflussreichsten und populärsten Hindi-Filme. Er zeigt das Leben, das durch Ausbeutung geprägt ist, armer Menschen auf dem Land.
A lady with no child is inauspicious. People don't want to get too close to me," Jhuma says bitterly. Friends and family are fully aware that Jhuma and her husband Niladri have not been able to conceive, but they still ask how old their child is and what school he goes to. They are trying to "humiliate me", Jhuma explains. After eight years of marriage their situation is becoming desperate. "We've been to many doctors and many gods. Now we are going to Hyderabad." Out of place and overwhelmed in the cosmopolitan city, Jhuma and Niladri examine the diagram on her desk warily.
Narrated by Rebecca St. James (Grammy Award Winning Artist), Mother India is a compelling documentary capturing the stories of abandoned and orphaned kids living in India. For one week, David and Shawn stepped into the lives of 25 boys and girls living alongside the railway station in the southern town of Tenali (Andhra Pradesh). With over 31 million orphans in India, the stories that emerge reflect the complexity of the issues and the challenge of rescuing kids from a life of begging and addiction. Find out what happens when these two friends eat, sleep, and play among this 'family' of street kids in an effort to experience life through their eyes. You'll never be the same.
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