A general debt. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra named Mother India among the patriotic films he grew up watching that shaped his approach to Rang De Basanti.
Film· 1957· Drama
मदर इण्डिया (Mother India)
by महबूब ख़ान Mehboob Khan
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Mehboob Khan was inspired by Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth and The Mother, and by the 1937 film of The Good Earth, when he conceived the story of a peasant woman's lonely struggle to raise her sons and keep her land.