Mammo

feature film, 1994

DIRECTED BY: Shyam Benegal

Mammo

CAST:
Farida Jalal (Mammo),
Surekha Sikri (Fayyazi),
Amit Phalke (mladi Riyaz),
Himani Shivpuri (Anwari),
Rajit Kapoor (stariji Riyaz)

SCRIPT:
Khalid Mohamed,
Shama Zaidi

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Prasan Jain

Synopsis:
Mammo is the nickname given to Mehmooda Begum by her by her sisters. Because she married a man from Lahore, after the division of Indian territory, she automatically becomes Pakistani. After her husband’s death his family throws Mammo out of their house and she has to return to her sister in India. But the British division of the former Indian colony did not divide just the territory but also many families. Now, Mammo has problems with extension of her visa…

color, 130 min