Daadi Maa

<p>Parvati (Bina Rai) hopes to repair the relationship between her husband Raja Pratap Rai (Ashok Kumar) and his stepmother. So she takes in her sister-in-law’s baby as her own, while the true heir gets raised up in the status of a servant. Will this secret be found out and what will happen? In a typically negative review, , in a column for the magazine , wrote of in 1966, “Whatever else our faults as a nation, none shall ever blame us for letting down Indian motherhood… Bina Rai is the Mom with the halo, married to Ashok Kumar who is quick to scowl, yell and shoot at people. He is no lover here; he is a Rajah entitled to the said tantrums. He even stands for elections, which is quite understandable since Rajahs are elected or nominated nowadays. He is opposed by a commoner backed by Durga Khote, who is the stepmother of Ashok Kumar… Brother-in-law is an ardent believer in socialism and looks as though he has swallowed and all that hook, line and sinker (note: reference is to the 1955 session of the at Avadi, where socialism was famously adopted as the ruling party’s policy) …. appears often, trying hard to raise a laugh or two. He is the only relieving feature, although he too contributes his share of hamming … Kumar is getting more rotund and even he is obviously fed up with Indian cinema, whatever film journals might say”. This article about a Hindi film of the 1960s is a . You can help Wikipedia by .</p>