TY  - ADVS
AU  - Uberoi,Safina
AU  - McDonald,Penelope
ED  - Chili films
ED  - Australian Film Finance Corporation
TI  - My mother India
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New Delhi : 
PB  - Magic Lantern Movies, Under Construction
KW  - Uberoi, Safina.
KW  - Family
KW  - India
KW  - Intermarriage
KW  - Racially mixed children
KW  - Sikhs
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 1947-
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Documentary
N1  - Originally released as DVD; Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011); Access limited to subscribers; For High School; College; Adult audiences; Electronic reproduction; Alexandria, VA; Alexander Street Press; 2011; (Filmakers library online); Available via World Wide Web
N2  - This lively portrait of the mixed marriage between a scholarly Sikh husband and his red-headed, freckle-faced Australian-born wife, is told from the point of view of their slightly bemused daughter, the filmmaker. Growing up in India, her eccentric parents were a source of embarrassment. In this conservative society, her mother would line dry her underwear to the horror of neighbors. Her father proudly collected "kitch" calendars in the name of anthropology. Her outspoken Indian grandmother hated all men, especially her ex-husband. Although Safina was teased by her classmates for having light-colored skin, she remembers a happy childhood.What begins as a gently humorous portrait unfolds into a complex commentary on the social, political and religious events of the anti-Sikh riots in 1984 which tore this family apart. This is a powerful story of love and hate, exile and belonging, loss of identity and return to faith.Produced in association with SBS Independent and financed by the Australian Film Finance Corporation
ER  -