Country: India
Directed by Mehboob Khan
Watching the film almost 65 years since its release it seems that hardly has a significant artistic value, being a commercial musical/ comical/melodramatic/epic salad that is hard to appreciate much (as a critic once put it " it's an outrageous masala of indigenous versions of Soviet-style tractor-opera, Italian neo-realism, Hollywood kiddie-cuteness, a dozen Technicolor musical numbers, and, most significantly, a metaphoric overlay of pop Hinduism"). However, if we put it back at the era of its production, Mother India managed to communicate perfectly at many levels with the common people who watched it in packed movie theaters as it combined impressive visuals, catchy songs, action, emotions and a simple political commentary with a way that they loved it. Probably the most influential and celebrated Indian movie of all time, even as a "bad" film certainly has a place in this list
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