Daadi Maa

Parvati (Bina Rai) hopes to repair the relationship between her husband Raja Pratap Rai (Ashok Kumar) and his stepmother. So she takes in her sister-in-law's baby as her own, while the true heir gets raised up in the status of a servant. Will this secret be found out and what will happen?[1]

• Durga Khote as Daadi Maa / Maharani
• Ashok Kumar as Raja Pratap Rai
• Bina Rai as Parvati
• Kashinath Ghanekar as Somu
• Dilip Raj as Shankar
• Tanuja as Saguna
• Mumtaz as Seema
• Mehmood as Mahesh
• Shashikala as Ganga
• Rehman as Dr. Bharati
• Chand Usmani as Wife of Dr. Bharati
• David as Balram
• Kanhaiyalal as Totaram
• Jankidas as Pandit Gyandutt
• Purnima (Hindi actress) as Bahurani, Shankar's Mother(Uncredited Role)
• Mukri

[2]

In a typically negative review, K. Shankar Pillai, in a column for the magazine Shankar's Weekly, wrote of Daadi Maa in 1966, "Whatever else our faults as a nation, none shall ever blame us for letting down Indian motherhood... Bina Rai is trie Mom with the halo, married to Ashok Kumar who is quick to scowl, yell and shoot at people. He is no lover here; he is a Rajah entitled to the said tantrums. He even stands for elections, which is quite understandable since Rajahs are elected or nominated nowadays. He is opposed by a commoner backed by Durga Khote who is the stepmother of Ashok Kumar... Brother- in-law Renrnan is an ardent believer in socialism and looks as though he has swallowed Avadi and all and all that hook, line and sinker... Mehmood appears often, trying hard to raise a laugh or two. He is the only relieving feature although he too contributes his share of hamming... [Kumar] is getting more rotund and even he is obviously fed up with Indian cinema, whatever film journals might say".[1]

• Daadi Maa at IMDb
• Daadi Maa at Rotten Tomatoes