Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Mother India

Mother India

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This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 3, 2013 by Bencherlite^Talk 23:18, 24 April 2013‎ (UTC)

Mother India is a 1957 Hindi epic melodrama film, directed by Mehboob Khan and starring Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar, and Raaj Kumar. A remake of Khan's 1940 film Aurat, it is the story of a poverty-stricken village woman named Radha (Nargis) who struggles to raise her sons and survive against an evil money-lender amidst many troubles. Despite her hardship, she sets a goddess-like moral example of an ideal Hindu Indian woman. In the end, she kills her criminal son for the greater good. Mother India metaphorically represents India as a nation in the aftermath of independence, and alludes to a strong sense of nationalism and nation-building. While some authors treat Radha as the symbol of women empowerment, others see her cast in female stereotypes. The film was the most expensive Hindi cinema (Bollywood) production and earned the highest revenue for any Hindi film at that time. Adjusted for inflation, Mother India still ranks among the all-time Indian blockbusters. Mother India became a definitive cultural classic and is regarded one of the best Indian films. It was India's first submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1958, where it made the shortlist. The film won the Filmfare Best Film Award for 1957, and Nargis and Khan won the Best Actress and Best Director awards respectively. (Full article...)

8 Points: Widely covered (2), 100 years of Indian cinema (6). WikiProject India as well as various other institutions are celebrating 100 years of Bollywood on this day: [1], Indian government, Bollywood. --Redtigerxyz ^Talk 05:53, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

• Support: For subject matter, and quality of the article. Is the blurb a lottle long? Ceoil (talk) 15:14, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Does it seem better now? Cut a little. Redtigerxyz ^Talk 15:28, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Yes. Its a subtle differece, but over long blurbs can be slightly dense and off putting. Or maybe I'm just shallow :) Ceoil (talk) 16:01, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

• Support: coincides 100 years of Indian cinema celebration. Ssriram mt (talk) 00:16, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
• Support (the pic would be better on the right, right?) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:46, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
• Support, I thought this was a rather interesting article at PR and FAC, and it still is: interesting article about a very interesting film. - SchroCat (talk) 07:37, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
• Support I prefer this image of Nargis, though.—indopug (talk) 00:09, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

The image of Nargis uploaded by me was part of the article, however was removed when it was realized that it is not free use under URAA. Redtigerxyz ^Talk 16:20, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

• Support A century of Indian Cinema...nice article to celebrate TheStrikeΣagle 09:23, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
• Support, with pic to right. Johnbod (talk) 14:29, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

• Comment Some of the post-FAC changes have been detrimental. The image of Khan which was added here is likely not free, and I've nominated it for deletion. That quote at the top of the legacy section is thugly. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:45, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Removed image. Both image and quote were present before FAC was complete. 13 March version. Redtigerxyz ^Talk 09:17, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

• That's odd, I don't recall seeing those when I did my image review. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:29, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

• Support for centenary, systemic bias etc. Casliber (talk · contribs) 21:48, 23 April 2013 (UTC)