The announcement of Nirupa Roy's death severs one of our last remaining links to the Golden Age Of Bollywood. For many, Nirupa Roy was almost a generic term for 'screen mother.' This was after she ...

She was the goddess of all small films. Saintly to the point of boredom, revered to the extent of deification, Nirupa Roy never wanted to be in the movies in the first place. A conservative ...

Almost always in a white sari, long-suffering and beyond reproach, waiting for her son to come home so she can tell him to wash up while she sets out his meal. That’s the mother figure imprinted in ...