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Mother's Day special: Daring on-screen mothers of Bollywood (see pics)

From maa to mom and then floundering towards obscurity. What happened? Where has the Bollywood screen mother gone? The lady who served, ‘gaajar ka halwa' and piping-hot puris at short notice, the perfect, all-sacrificing devi



"Listen....Amaya": A widowed Deepti Naval with a grown up daughter tells the latter that she wants to remarry. The daughter Swara Bhaskar's shock, revulsion and refusal to accept that her mother is entitled to a life beyond that of a mother is symptomatic of a society that deifies the mother figure at the cost of her personal happiness.