Matrubhoomi (2003) - (Movies To See Before You Die - Drama)

An important but a lesser known movie on a burning topic of the country which can easily be rated as one of the boldest ever films made in the Indian Cinema based on a real life truth. It revolves around the brutal and selfish girl child killing or female foeticide which can be strangely seen both in the rural as well as the urban metro cities, causing a huge gap between the boy-girl ratio in the country.

The movie is shockingly inspired from true incidents in the Indian Villages where it is now becoming tough to find a girl for every young boy eligible for marriage. However earlier it was widely accepted as a problem mainly prevalent in the less educated people living in the rural areas, who were supposedly killing the unborn girl child (& even the new born), only to have more boys in their families who can be a bread earner for them in the future. But the recent researches have revelaed that with the changing times, this problem has grown more rapidly in the cities among the educated citizens who are well aware of its consequences in the long run.