Mother India a bollycat of The Good Earth

February 24, 2005 8:32 AM | Permalink | Comments (4)

This BollyCat (known at the Indian 'Gone with the Wind') is reported everytime a Bollywood paper does a story on plagiarism in Bollywood. So we thought we might include this as well, since so many people refer to this as the "original" Bollywood.

So as they say, "Mother India" (no need to translate this title!) had "shades" of Pearl S Buck's classic, The Good Earth.

Here's what one sane reviewer had to say about this BollyCat at IMDb.com, "...for this viewer it seems less a "classic" and more a prime example of how Indian audiences have been traditionally willing to submit to films that are routinely as long as those blockbusters that bombarded our roadshow houses back in the late Fifties through the 1960s."

And yes, you can still keep loving it.

The Good Earth [1934] IMDb Info Page
Mother India [1957] IMDb Info Page

4 Comments

Vaibhav said:

There are some movies which are copies man....but by mentioning this under that category looks like you are doing a waste of ur as well as my time....go watch it...from ur comments on orkut looks like u havent wathched many hindi movies.
Sorry man I realy feel you have wasted your time.

February 24, 2005 9:25 AM

moyal said:

Mother India was nominated for oscars. It is one of the greatest movie ever made. Now if u have no job and skill then u can go take a hike. I understand that u know nothing else but to hurt people. So do that. U really need help man. Hey, have u heard that a pakistani director wanted to take Julia Roberts in his movie. What a joke. It took julia roberts less than a minute to refuse. She didn't even thought about it. Now that shows the reputation of a country and its film industry

February 24, 2005 6:04 PM

Anant said:

So does a Bollywood film qualify as a remake even if it's based on a novel? "The Good Earth" was orignally a Pulitzer prize winning novel, a pretty boring one at that.

March 8, 2005 6:54 PM

Sandeep said:

yaar what a great rubbish u wrote.u need to apply ur own mind instead of listening some idiots who dont have even money to buy CD's.man i just dont want to involve ur country as vaibhav did but just become mature from critising every things of bollywood.how abt ur mira honey?r u also the one who want to kill her coz she kissed an indian hero.....lol

May 27, 2005 6:19 AM

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