Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa (English: The Mother of 1084) is a 1998 Indian feature film that deals with the life of a woman who loses her son, a Naxalite, to the violence that is a result of his adopted ideology.

[1] The film is directed produced by Govind Nihalani[2] and is based on Magsaysay and Jnanpith award recipient Mahasweta Devi's Bengali 1974 novel Hajar Churashir Maa.

The film stars Jaya Bachchan, Anupam Kher, Milind Gunaji, Seema Biswas, Joy Sengupta and Nandita Das.

[5] Dibyanath Chatterji, his bank-employed wife, Sujata, and youngest son, Brati, live an affluent existence in Calcutta, West Bengal, India, circa early 1970s.

Sujata is a quiet, devout Hindu, religious, and compassionate woman, and Brati has finished his school and is now attending college.