Sillo Mahava is an actress who played the role of Mrs. Gomes in the India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n film, Black (2005), based on the life of Helen Keller

Helen Keller

Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree....

, featuring Ayesha Kapoor

Ayesha Kapoor

Ayesha Kapur , born 13 September 1994 in India, is an award winning Indian film actress who is best known for playing young Michelle McNally in the Bollywood movie Black. Kapur received unanimous praise for the role, and quickly became the recipient of many Awards in the "Best Supporting Actress"...

, Rani Mukerji

Rani Mukerji

Rani Mukerji is an Indian film actress who works in Hindi movies. In the course of her film career, she has received six Filmfare Awards, among twelve nominations....

 and Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades...

. (The movie was based on the Hollywood film, The Miracle Worker

The Miracle Worker (1962 film)

The Miracle Worker is a 1962 American biographical film directed by Arthur Penn. The screenplay by William Gibson is based on his 1959 play of the same title, which originated as a 1957 broadcast of the television anthology series Playhouse 90...

(1962) which shows the struggles faced by Anne Sullivan in teaching Keller.) Mrs. Gomes was the housekeeper and seemed to spoil Michelle McNelly, the protagonist

Protagonist

A protagonist is the main character of a literary, theatrical, cinematic, or musical narrative, around whom the events of the narrative's plot revolve and with whom the audience is intended to most identify...

played by Kapoor and Mukerji (Kapoor portrayed McNelly as the young, defiant girl; Mukerji when McNelly was older).

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