Did you know?

■ Nargis won a Best Actress award for Mother India at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

■ The success of Mother India was noted in classic Bollywood film Kala Bazar (1960), when lead star Dev Anand is seen selling tickets in black for Mother India.

■ The film was one of the first to use western classical music and Hollywood-style orchestra for the soundtrack, which would influence others to do the same.

■ Mother India was remade in Telugu as Bangaru Talli (1971) and in Tamil as Punniya Boomi (1978).

■ A Turkish adaptation of the film was made as Toprak Ana (1973).

■ British collective Kala Phool released the album Mother India – 21st Century Remix, with contemporary interpretations of the movie’s music.