Mother India: The Rebirth Of An Icon

Despite Mother India containing a lot of what are now considered stereotypes in much of the minority world, it indeed was somewhat fair for its day in a rather telling light, which is mostly because there were films in the nineteen thirties, forties, fifties and sixties which are universally sexist even by the standards of such decades. 

Funnily enough, at the time of writing there is Aurat (the original, whose title means ‘woman’ in Hindi), Mother India (the considerably lighter and softer one in colour), Bangaru Thalli (the Telugu one) and Punniya Boomi (the Tamil one). Due to sharing the same director, the directing rights of both Aurat and Mother India will become public domain in most nations except Mexico and the US (which means sixty and seventy years after Mehboob Khan’s death); thus, an animated adaptation will practically be an actuality. 

Said animated adaptation will technically be a scary comedy series imitating a Lifetime Movie of the week in the form of a web serial. Its plot will really contain Radha missing her siblings while being (rather unfunnily) groped by cuckolding men, consensually having sex with a dowry disaffected husband who’s also an intelligent adult (albeit only two thirds her age) and having babies with him too. These things are all near the tip of the iceberg, which blandly contains; Radha being a disgruntled and horribly underpaid biscuit factory worker (for a fictional company not called Parle due to legal reasons). 

Also, it will subtly represent why most people still need to accept change regardless of social standing, while a few others are still outright pricks.