Shyam Benegal’s Mammo: A Tender Tale of Loss and Longing
Shyam Benegal’s Mammo: A Tender Tale of Loss and Longing: As I turned on my laptop to make use of my idle time I played this randomly recommended film from my insta algorithm (well it did something good for once). I played Mammo, Shyam Benegal 1994 forgotten masterpiece. Some stories haunt the pages of histories, always floating, never fully put to rest, always on a journey with no destination in sight. Carried by winds, residing in hearts for their home was now a distant memory living only in the hearts of those who once lived it. Mammo is such story. On the surface, Mammo tells the story of Mehmooda Begum urf Mammo, an elderly woman who come to India from Lahore to her sister, Fayazzi and grandson, Riyaz. A woman who carries the past scars as open medals, her kindness like an open waterfall never dried. The law sees her as a criminal, a spy, an agent from the enemy land, yet she sees India as her own, the place she once called home. The film doesn't move; there are no loud court ...