MUMBAI: To coincide with Mother‘s Day on 9 May, Marathi film Shyamchi Aai will be widely screened across hundreds of cinema halls in Maharashtra.

The film was the autobiography of freedom fighter, social activist and writer Sane Guruji, revolving around his relationship with his mother.
In 1953, the book was adopted as a film which, in 1954, won the first National Award for best feature film.

The film, which centers on a mother‘s unconditional love for her child, will also be screened widely in Andhra Pradesh and Punjab. 

In Shyamchi Aai, Sane Guruji, fondly called Shyam as a child and belonged to a Brahmin family in rural Maharashtra in pre-independence era, narrates his memories to a group of children. The story unfolds in the form of chapters named ‘ratra‘ (night in Marathi).

Shyam‘s mother gets married into a wealthy family, but they gradually become a victim of debt-ridden poverty. She falls ill and dies, but her life leaves quite a mark on Shyam.

Avers Rudraa Home Video director Subhash Chheda, "It is a story that literally everyone - adult or child, man or woman, educated or illiterate - can relate to. After all who has not been touched by and changed forever by a mother‘s love."