Mathru Bhoomi is a 1939 Indian Tamil-language film directed by H. M. Reddy.

[3][4] Mathru Bhoomi is an adaptation of the Bengali stage play Chandragupta.

[4] The film was mounted on a record budget of ₹2 lakh {worth ₹34 crore in 2021 prices) and took 1 year to complete.

[5] In 1937, the Indian nationalist party the Indian National Congress defeated the pro-British Justice Party for the first time in the elections to the Madras Legislative Assembly and Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari was sworn in as the Chief Minister.

As an immediate consequence of this change of guard, censorship was relaxed on Tamil films.