Mammo might just be India's best family film. And if you want to take it a step further, Mammo might also be one of the best family movies for Muslims all across the world.
Mammo has some more serious undertones -- those of India and Pakistan's unfriendly relations and their impact on regular people, the often ignored violence against women across the Indian sub-continent, the Anglophiles and the class-conscious young children schools have produced, and above all, the lack of sincerity in our daily lives. Mammo represents everything that society has had to lose in its desperation for wealth and luxury, the spirited woman that does whatever her heart wishes (and God permits).
It's funny in some places, very tear-jerking in others. Definitely the best out of Benegal's Muslim trilogy.
Mammo has some more serious undertones -- those of India and Pakistan's unfriendly relations and their impact on regular people, the often ignored violence against women across the Indian sub-continent, the Anglophiles and the class-conscious young children schools have produced, and above all, the lack of sincerity in our daily lives. Mammo represents everything that society has had to lose in its desperation for wealth and luxury, the spirited woman that does whatever her heart wishes (and God permits).
It's funny in some places, very tear-jerking in others. Definitely the best out of Benegal's Muslim trilogy.