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| | Film Threat - Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | While celebrated as India's answer to "Gone with the Wind," the film is closer in spirit and production to "Raintree County": ponderous, splattery, overstuffed, and interesting in isolated sections rather than in its unsatisfactory whole. |
 | | One of the kids dies, the other becomes a bandit, the moneylender sexually harasses Radha, a famine comes, then a flood, and then...well, it is merciful that Radha lacks indoor plumbing or else filmmaker Khan would have thrown in the proverbial kitchen sink. |
 | | The American release of "Mother India" promises a "ravishing new print," although the film actually looks more ravaged than ravishing as the original Gevacolor cinematography (transferred to Technicolor) is rather faded and the print is scratched in a few places. |
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