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Maa to Mom - The alteration face of Bollywood Mothers |
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'Mere Paas Maa Hai'! This band of Shashi Kapoor's from the blur Deewar has been the abiding adage in the apple of Hindi cinema. However, from the times of Mother India, Bollywood has consistently portrayed mother as anyone who not just faces hardships but aswell sacrifices the most. This Mother's Day, Bollywood Hungama takes a attending at the alteration phases of mothers in Hindi films.
The aboriginal canicule Hindi Cinema had onscreen mothers cry, weep, ache and delay for their afterlife to rid herself of her sorrows. But with alteration times, this Bollywood blueprint has become anachronous and is dumped. The role of a mother again went from accepting feebly anemic to ultra able in the backward 80's. She had the ability to yield it aloft herself and get things done on her terms. She took animus for every abuse done to her.
Somewhere in the backward 90's, there was addition change. This time it was the accepted appellation 'Maa' that underwent a alteration to become the avant-garde 'Mom'. It was again that the Bollywood moms acquired from the abounding apparel of a sari to move on to artist wears. No best did she abatement at the anxiety of a durga idol praying for conservancy and seek justice. These moms confused advanced with the new bearing and became accompany with their accouchement rather than banishment themselves on them.
In aboriginal 2000's, individual and alive mothers aswell got congenital into Hindi cinema. Veteran actresses such as Rekha and Kirron Kher, who played individual mothers in Koi Mil Gaya and Hum Tum respectively, displayed such attributes with abundant attitude and poise. Even Lara Dutta portrayed the burghal individual mother in Partner who single-handled managed both her career and home.
Raising the bar for onscreen mothers were actresses like Shabana Azmi, Lillette Dubey and Dimple Kapadia, who've absolutely afford the ache and helplessness act. They play the mothers who are consistently accessible to their accouchement as accompany after accepting judgmental about their affair but at the aforementioned time, aswell accord them amplitude if required. They acquire aswell torn the average of the Evil Stepmom (Shabana Azmi in Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.), proving that today's mother is complete abundant to appropriately acquire her 'step children' added aboveboard than anytime before.
With time, Hindi cinema's mothers acquire gone from 'Maa' to 'Mom' and from saris to jeans but they still abide the aforementioned at heart. Maa or Mom, whatever you accept to alarm them, still dote on their sons, still anticipate their daughter's weddings, and still strive for the beatitude for her family.
This Mother's Day, Bollywood Hungama salutes all the mothers for their actual adulation and every cede that they've fabricated for the joy of their children.
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