The French release by Carlotta is an NTSC-to-PAL conversion from the Eros DVD.

Thanks! So thats settle that!

Screenshots finally from the Eros DVD...

Thanks Stephen,

I wish Hindi public will be willing to patronize some more MAMA HINDUSTANI kinda strong roles!

REGION All
CASE Keep Case
DISTRIBUTOR DEI
VIDEO FORMAT (ntsc/pal), AR, and WHETHER ANAMORPHIC NTSC Full Screen 4:3
AUDIO DD Mono
SUBTITLES English
IRRITANTS Dull colours. Slightly grainly.
RUNTIME 175 mins
EXTRAS Now Available

there's an APOLLO release as well

http://www.induna.com/1000001247-productdetails/
does anyone have screen shots for this version

The DEI dvd of Mother India states the film running time as 175 minutes and the Eros dvd cover states it as 163 minutes is the Eros dvd cut?

That's probably because of 4% pal speedup.

to know more go here
and here

Can someone reload shots from the DEi edition? Is there a thread with the shots from Carlotta constructed here?

http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/133 ... a/overview

Is that cover a legit DVD? It says widescreen?

Has anyone seen it?

Yup. I did have this DVD, actually I still have the cover but threw the disc away after the EROS and DEI versions were released. It is a bad DVD. Cropped to make it widescreen and non-anamorphic so you had to manually zoom to get rid of the top/bottom black bars. Not sure why this was ever released as it was quite pointless. The DVD back cover states menu for songs only and as far as I recall it had no subtitles. It was one of the first DVDs that I bough so I can't remember much else about it aside from being shocked that it was a cheap manual cropping job (I was easily shocked back then). Having said that, I wonder if it was the full movie? Too late now to go back and find out.

Thanks! I was under the impression that this is a BFI release

Nope - it was a pirate I guess (or not official). Plus - Mother India was always full screen, so run away from anything that says widescreen (I guess I started learning about what to avoid after my first few Indian DVD purchases).

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Mother India cropped for 70mm screening in the 80s? So they might've used that source.
I'm still waiting for a decent print. DEi, apparently had VHS-based quality, and Eros is softish (I have a stupid field averaged edition by Eros, bought in India.)