Mammo (1994)

Original title

मम्मो

Directed by

Shyam Benegal

Genre

drama film, romantic comedy

Country

India

Runtime

2h

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A grandmother who has been living in Pakistan returns to India to visit her family. She tries to reunite with her grandson and rebuild her life in her homeland, but faces obstacles from bureaucracy and her own relatives.

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What happens

Mammo is a 1994 Indian Hindi-language film by Shyam Benegal. It stars Farida Jalal, Surekha Sikri, Amit Phalke and Rajit Kapur. The film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi in 1995. Farida Jalal won Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance, while Surekha Sikri won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress. It was the first film of Benegal’s Muslim trilogy, which included Sardari Begum (1996) and Zubeidaa (2001). The film was critically acclaimed and is regarded among his best works. The film’s writer, Khalid Muhammad, mentioned that he wrote the role for Waheeda Rehman who was hesitant to do the role, thus casting Farida Jalal. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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