Mehboob Khan Death Anniversary: Best movies by Mother India filmmaker
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Mehboob Khan was a pioneer producer-director of Indian Cinema and he is famously known for directing the social epic Mother India for which he won the Filmfare Awards for Best Film and Best Director and two National Film Awards.
Khan set up his production company- Mehboob Productions and later a film studio- Mehboob Studios in Bandra, Mumbai in 1954.
He passed away on 28 May 1964. The cause of death was a heart attack. Let us honour him by taking a look at some of his best work over the years:
Balle Balle, Bhangra and deshbhakti: why the positive stereotyping of Sikhs by Bollywood should bother us Positive stereotyping ends up otherising the community, whereas what a deeply divided India desperately needs is the representation of minorities as regular people, “one of us”. Anna MM Vetticad December 22, 2020 16:05:56 IST Akshay Kumar in Kesari
As a child growing up in Delhi, I remember not viewing Sikhism as a faith separate from Hinduism and vaguely assuming it was a sect of India’s majority religion. Until the 1984 riots, that is. That was when a close friend told me how a Hindu neighbour – thankfully, only one – called aside some boys in our locality and in hushed tones told them to keep their bats and hockey sticks ready for any eventuality “