In which film’s climax did a mother shoot her own son dead for the sake of a woman’s honor (he was abducting her)…a couple of years before Mother India was made?
Carla’s review of Mother India brought this one to mind.
Madhu is the only person who knew this one! The film is Munimji (1955) starring Dev Anand and the gorgeous Nalini Jaywant, along with Nirupa Roy and Pran. Nirupa Roy was only 24 (as Madhu points out in her comment) but played Pran’s mother. Madhu also told me that she won a Best Supporting Actress Filmfare award for this performance, which makes me shudder. She played a weepy, unworthy-son-worshipping Ma at its very worst, but the songs in the film and the romance between Dev Anand and Nalini Jaywant make it worth watching. Plus, she did come through at the end, and Pran got his just desserts.
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