“Awards is the not goal behind producing Mathrubhoomi,” said Sridevi. She was speaking to media at a press conference yesterday (03/06/05) after the screening of the Tamil version of Mathrubhoomi which comes with the tagline ‘A Nation without Women’. The film is presented by Boney Kapoor and Sridevi Boney Kapoor.
Quoted as ‘one of the year’s top ten films in the world’ by TIME magazine, Mathrubhoomi deals with gender discrimination and female infanticide in our country. This is Manish Jha’s first commercial film and talking about the film he said, “I got the story thread from an article I read some years ago in one of the weeklies. When I started researching on these lines, I came across the report from Ministry of Health and UNFRA, that there are around 35 million girls missing from the population of India due to gender discrimination which was a revelation which further pushed me to go ahead with this project.”
More pictures can be seen in gallery under Mathrubhoomi section.
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