<p><p>Among the top actresses of the Golden Era who made a comeback as Mother, the actress who tops the list is unarguably Nutan. This brilliant actress ruled the 50s and 60s as the top heroine, doing roles with substance. In her career spanning 4 decades, she won 5 Filmfare awards as Best Actress. She quit Bollywood in the late ’60s after her marriage to look after her children. Her last film was Milan (1967), for which she won a Filmfare award.
The Mother Factor: Comeback Films That Defined Their Careers
Six years later she made a comeback and played the mother of an ailing son who donates his eyes before death in the film Anuraag (1974). Later in the ’80s, she played a power-packed role as a mentally challenged mother of Anil Kapoor in the film Meri Jung (1986). The role won her another Filmfare award in supporting roles. In her entire career, she did only roles that had substance. Even as the mother she did selected films like Saajan Bina Suhagan (1978), Yudh (1985), Naam (1986), Karma (1986), etc.
Second Innings: Actresses Who Shone as Mothers in Comeback Films
‘Guddi,’ aka Jaya Bhaduri Bachchan, and better half of superstar Amitabh Bachchan, is perhaps the only actress who, in her career as a heroine, won fame and awards, and interestingly, after 18 years of renunciation (‘sannyas’), when she made a comeback with Govind Nihalani’s Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa (1998), she created the same magic. She won a special Filmfare award for best performance in the film. What is most admirable about Jaya‘s comeback is that she won an equal number of 4 awards that she won earlier during the first phase of her career, i.e., during the first phase she won 4 Filmfare Best Actress Awards for Uphaar (1972), Abhimaan (1974), Kora Kagaz (1975), and Nauker (1980).
The Mother Factor: Comeback Films That Defined Their Careers
N. Similarly, in her second phase, she won the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa (1998), Fiza (2001), Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2002), and Kal Ho Na Ho (2004). Interestingly, she also appeared with her son, Abhishek Bachchan, in the films Laaga Chunari Mein Daag (2007) and Drona (2008).
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Popularly known as ‘Dream Girl,’ Hema Malini is indeed one of Bollywood’s most gorgeous actresses to ever hit the Indian screen. Every filmmaker tried to bank on her sex appeal. Thus, casting Hema Malini as the mother was a challenging task, but kudos to filmmaker Gulzar—he did what others feared! In the film Khushboo (1975), he depicted Hema Malini playing mother to Jeetendra‘s young son. Later in 1982, she played mother to Raj Kiran in the film Farz Aur Kanoon (1982). In Jamai Raja ((1991), she playeda daunting motherr-in-law of Anil Kapoor. After this, she took a break, and in2000,0 when she made a comeback inBollywood,d she played mother to Salman Khan in twofilms,sviz.,z Baghban (2003) and Baabul (2006), and looked as graceful as she looked gorgeous in her heydays.
Motherly Magic: Actresses Who Stole the Show in Comeback Roles
Mala Sinha, the charming Nepali beauty, ruled the 60s with hit films like Dhool Ka Phool, Anpadh, Hariyali Aur Rasta, Gumrah, Aankhen, Himalaya Ki God Mein, Mere Huzoor, and Maryada , among others. In the mid-70s, she cut down on her assignments as the lead actress and played powerful character roles. She played mother to Raaj Kumar in Karmayogi (1978), Randhir Kapoor in Harjaee (1981), and Anil Dhawan in Zindagi (1976). In the film Zindagi, she was paired with Sanjeev Kumar. The duo played an old couple who make a living at the pity of their children.
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