Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) and Baghban (2003)

"Make way for Tomorrow" according to Orson Welles was the saddest movie ever made. Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi are quite charming as the elderly couple who get separated by their financial difficulties.Both go to live separately with different children,as none of their five children will take both parents in.Its a well scripted film where nobody's entirely good or bad: The children do mean well, but let selfishness intervene; the aged parents are victims, but they're also unavoidably inconvenient and occasionally annoying.

The story is about an elderly married couple (Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi) who lose their house to the bank. None of their five children has enough room for both of them, so they end up breaking up, supposedly temporarily, to live in the homes of two of their children. Moore goes with his daughter (Minna Gombell) and Bondi goes with her son (Thomas Mitchell). Much of the movie focuses on Bondi living with her son's family (Fay Bainter is Mitchell's wife and Barbara Read his daughter). It's Hell for all of them. Bondi's old fashioned ways are annoying to the family. She herself feels out of place and confused, having lived with her husband for 50 years. Meanwhile, Moore is having just as awful a time at his daughter's place.In the climax the old couple finally reunites. It's pretty much the first time in the film we see them spend a significant amount of time together, and these two people who seemed so awkward apart feel like a whole together. We see their love, we feel for what they've lost.And they finally say goodbye at the railway station the wife not telling her Husband that she has agreed to go and live in an Old Age Home.

Baghban (2003) has a similar theme and scenes and situations that are inspired from this Classic.It was a great success and first of its kind.