Mother India Details

Chronicling the impact of momentous events on an enduring cross-cultural marriage, this is not only a remarkable tale of courage and commitment, but also a very personal history of India since the 1947 Partition. Exiled director Safina Uberoi's interviews with her Sikh father Jit and expat Australian mother Patricia provide the backbone of the film, which uses family artifacts and a range of audio-visual resources to assess the national and domestic ramifications of the Indo-Pakistani war of 1966, the civil unrest sparked by the 1984 raid on the Golden Temple at Amritsar and the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The result is a warm, thoughtful and revealing experience.

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