"Mother India" is ranked No. 80 in "Empire" magazine's "The 100 Best Films of World Cinema" in 2010. It is listed among the only three Hindi films in the book "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" (the others being "Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge" and "Deewaar"). Film critic Anupama Chopra included it in her list of top 100 films in world cinema. In 2005, Indiatimes Movies ranked the film amongst the "Top 25 Must See Bollywood Films". It was ranked third in the British Film Institute's 2002 poll of "Top 10 Indian Films". It was also included in "TIME"s list of the best Bollywood classics in 2010, and in CNN-IBN's list of the "100 greatest Indian films of all time" in 2013. The film was premiered in the "Cannes Classics" section of the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.