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Piya Ka Ghar

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Piya Ka Ghar
Directed byBasu Chatterjee
Written byBasu Chatterjee
Screenplay byRam Kelkar
Story byVasant P. Kale
Based onMumbaicha Jawai
(Marathi Film)
Produced byTarachand Barjatya
StarringJaya Bhaduri
Anil Dhawan
Paintal
CinematographyK. K. Mahajan
Edited byMukhtar Ahmed
Music byLaxmikant Pyarelal
Production
company
Distributed byRajshri Productions
Release date
  • 25 February 1972 (1972-02-25)
Running time
135 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Piya Ka Ghar (transl. My beloved's house) is a 1972 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film directed by Basu Chatterjee, and produced by Rajshri Productions, starring Anil Dhawan and Jaya Bachchan. A remake of Raja Thakur's Marathi film Mumbaicha Jawai, it portrays the difficulties of life in Mumbai during the 1970s in the form of a comic family drama. According to film and music expert Rajesh Subramanian, Amol Palekar was the first choice for the lead role, but an unfortunate misunderstanding led to Chatterjee casting Anil Dhawan.

Plot

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The two main characters are Ram and Malti. Ram lives in a chawl (tenement) in Mumbai. Malti initially lives in a relatively comfortable home in an unidentified village.

Ram and Malti are hooked up through a matchmaker that their parents have hired. The matchmaker first visits Malti's house, then he then visits Ram and his family (parents, two brothers, one sister-in-law, three uncles, and two aunts), who live together in a one-room apartment.

Ram and Malti fall in love, and Ram's family visits her in her village. Soon, they are married, and Malti moves to Ram's apartment, not knowing what to expect. Since there is very little room left in the apartment, the newlyweds are forced to sleep in the kitchen. They make several comical, but failed, attempts to have some privacy.

At last, Malti can bear it no longer, and her uncle arrives to take her back to the village. But when they see all her in-laws offering to move out on her account, they change their minds, saying that such love overcomes the difficulties of living in Mumbai. In the end, the couple finally finds the privacy they were seeking.

Cast

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Actor/Actress Character/Role Notes
Jaya Bhaduri Malti Shankar
Anil Dhawan Ram G. Sharma
Agha Girdharilal Sharma
Sulochana Chatterjee Mrs. Girdharilal Sharma
Suresh Chatwal Shiri G. Sharma
Rajeeta Thakur Shobha Shiri Sharma as Rajeeta Thakur
Raja Paranjpe Gauri Shankar as Raja Paranjape
Keshto Mukherjee Baburao Kulkarni as Kesto Mukherjee
Mukri Kanhaiya
Sunder Irate Passenger
Paintal Arun
C.S. Dubey Pandit
Asrani
Sarita Devi
Samar Chatterjee
Manmauji
Prakash Mishra
Pardesi
Rajan Verma as Raj Verma
Alka
Amitabh Bachchan Guest Appearance
Dharmendra Himself

Soundtrack

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The following songs, listed in the order in which they appear. Lyrics are penned by Anand Bakshi and music is composed by Laxmikant Pyarelal. The song "Ye Jeevan Hai" sung by Kishore Kumar was frequently used in 2022 movie Uunchai in background as a part of the story plot.

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