Grandmother) is a 1966 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by L. V. Prasad and starring Ashok Kumar, Bina Rai, Mumtaz, Tanuja and Durga Khote.

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.

[2] [3] 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 the Mom with the halo, married to Ashok Kumar who is quick to scowl, yell and shoot at people.

Brother-in-law Rehman is an ardent believer in socialism and looks as though he has swallowed Avadi and all that hook, line and sinker (note: reference is to the 1955 session of the INC at Avadi, where socialism was famously adopted as the ruling party's policy) .... 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".