In 1940 Ashok Kumar in Kismet revealed that the hero can be flawed and KL Saigal discovered that it was alright to be different. Music composer Naushad Ali and Noor Jehan together weaved magic with ‘Awaz de kahan hain duniya meri jawan hai’ and at the fag end of the decadecame a nightingale/ Lata Mangekar ‘Aayega aayega aane wala’/ Mahal that wrote history
In the fifties many pathbreaking films were made by talented filmmakers like Raj Kapoor, Guru Dutt, Bimal Roy and more but if I have to pick one that defines Indian mother it will be undoubtedly Mehboob Khan’s Mother India.
To be continued