Maa (1952)
May 9, 1952Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.

Bharat Bhushan
Bhanu

Leela Chitnis
Bhanu's & Raju's mom

Shyama
Meena

Nazir Hussain
Bhanu's & Raju's dad

Paul Mahendra
Raju / Writer

Achala Sachdev

Manju
Meena's Friend

Kusum Deshpande

Mehmood

Bhupendra Kapoor
Actor

Asha Parekh

B.M. Vyas

Bharat Vyas
Lyricist

Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Editor

Asha Bhosle
Playback Singer

Kishore Kumar
Playback Singer

Nabendu Ghosh
Writer / Story

Asit Sen
Story

Surya Kumar Pal
Music

Josef Wirsching
Director of Photography

Manna Dey
Playback Singer

Afzal Hussain
Playback Singer

Geeta Dutt
Playback Singer

D.N. Jadhav
Art Direction

Bimal Roy
Screenplay / Director

Kishan Bhikha
Costume Design

Master Chhotu

Krishnakant

Samar Chatterjee

Vikram Kapoor

Gunjan
Media.

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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
Maa (Mother) is a 1952 Indian Hindi-language social family drama directed by Bimal Roy for Bombay Talkies. Bimal Roy was asked to come to Bombay from Calcutta to direct the film for the studio, which was going through bad times. Bombay Talkies' earlier favourite Leela Chitnis was cast in the eponymous role of Mother. This was the first film Roy directed in Bombay. Later, he was to break away and form his own production company: Bimal Roy Productions. The first film he produced and directed under his new banner was Do Bigha Zameen (1953), the next year.
The cinematographer was Josef Wirsching. The film's music was composed by S. K. Pal with lyrics by Bharat Vyas. The film co-starred Bharat Bhushan, Shyama, Nazir Hussain, Mehmood and B. M. Vyas.
The story was said to be adapted loosely from the old Hollywood film Over The Hills, which was about a "self-sacrificing son and his mother". According to B. D. Garga, the film's sentimental melodrama was handled with intelligence and finesse by Roy, which stopped it from becoming a "mushy tear-jerker".
The 1979 film Khandaan is a remake of this film and it was in turn remade in Telugu as Jeevitha Ratnam (1981).