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Mammo is a 1994 Indian Hindi-language film by Shyam Benegal. It stars Farida Jalal, Surekha Sikri, Amit Phalke and Rajit Kapur. The film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi in 1995. Farida Jalal won Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance, while Surekha Sikri won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Aug 22, 2021 · Mammo forms the first part of journalist and filmmaker Khalid Mohamed’s three-film collaboration with director Shyam Benegal about the lived experiences of Muslim women in Independent India.
Dec 12, 2019 · Written by Khalid Mohamed and directed by Shyam Benegal, this is the first film of Muslim trilogy including Sardari Begum (1996) and Zubeidaa (2001) and extended with Well Done Abba (2010). Mammo is a story of a young boy called Riyaz (Amit Phalke) who lives with his Naani (maternal grandmother) Fayyazi (Surekha Sikri) in Bombay.
Jul 27, 2021 · Mammo is based on Mohamed’s great-aunt, who was deported to Pakistan. In most of his films, Muslim-minority identity struggles are at the core of the conflict, and I remember Mammo as the first film where I thought I was seen and heard, through the character of Rizoo, played by a brilliant Amit Phalke.
May 7, 2023 · Now it becomes clear that everything we have just seen are the fractured memories of Riyaz who is haunted by Mammo, a symbolic link for the Muslim to a traumatic past, which remains intact. In this respect, Mammo’s status as a Muslim woman is augmented by the Partition; the two are inseparable.
Sep 20, 2021 · Islamophobia has undoubtedly infected films and web series. This is especially evident in productions about terrorism, espionage and wars. The recently released Bhuj: The Pride of India includes...
Nov 17, 2023 · The first of three collaborations with journalist-turned-scriptwriter/director Khalid Mohamed, director Shyam Benegal’s 1994 film Mammo was the first in a series of interventionist films, four in total, which addressed the plight and contemporary experiences of Muslim women in India.
