: पिया का घर, Nastaliq: پیا کا گھر, translation

Translation

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: "My Beloved's House", 1972) is a Hindi

Hindi

Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...

 comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 set (mainly) in Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

 in the 1970s. It is a remake of Raja Thakur's Marathi film Mumbaicha Javai. It portrays the difficulties of life in India's biggest city during the 70s in the form of a comic family drama.

Plot

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

Ram and Malti are hooked up through a matchmaker

Matchmaking

Matchmaking is any process of matching two people for the purpose of marriage or a sporting contest.-Practice:In some cultures, the role of the matchmaker was and is quite professionalized...

 that their parents have hired. We first see the matchmaker visiting Malti's house; 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 sought.

Songs

The following songs, listed in the order in which they appear, are from Piya Ka Ghar:

• "Ye Zulf Kaisee Hai" — This love song is somewhat well known.
• "Ye Jeevan Hai" — This was the most popular song in Piya Ka Ghar. It is the film's theme.
• "Piya Ka Ghar" — In this song, Malti tries to make the most of her new life. The lyrics are not to be found online.
• "Bambaee Shahar Kee" —- This relatively obscure song portrays Mumbai more optimistically and romantically.

Cast

Actor/Actress	Character/Role	Notes
Jaya Bhaduri	Malti Shankar
Anil Dhawan	Ram G. Sharma
Agha Agha (actor) Agha was an Indian film producer in Bollywood films, who started his film career with the film Daulat in 1937.He was known for comic roles and appeared in over 180 Hindi films in his career between 1937 and 1989 spanning five decades....	Girdharilal Sharma
Sulochana Chatterjee	Mrs. Girdharilal Sharma
Suresh Chatwal	Shiri G. Sharma
Ranjita Thakur	Shobha Shiri Sharma	as Ranjeeta Thakur
Raja Paranjpe	Gauri Shankar	as Raja Paranjape
Keshto Mukherjee Keshto Mukherjee Keshto Mukherjee was an Indian actor. He specialised in comic drunkard roles in the Hindi films. Though he was famous for his drunkard typecast role in Hindi films, he used to share a very good relation with the iconic Ritwik Ghatak and had very tiny but important roles in the maestro's films...	Baburao Kulkarni	as Kesto Mukherjee
Mukri Mukri "Mukri" was born as Muhammad Umar Mukri in 1922 in Alibagh. He started his film career from film "Pratima" along with notable Indian film actor Dilip Kumar in 1945....	Kanhaiya
Sunder	Irate Passenger
Paintal Paintal (comedian) Kanwarjit Paintal, better known as Paintal, born in a Sikh family, started off as an Indian comic actor and moved on to teaching the art of acting. He has extensively worked not only in numerous movies but also television....	Arun
C.S. Dubey	Pandit
Asrani Asrani Govardhan Asrani , popularly known simply as Asrani, is an actor in Indian films whose Bollywood career has spanned over 35 years. His wife Manju Bansal is an actress.-Early life:...
Sarita Devi
Samar Chatterjee
Manmauji
Prakash Mishra
Pardesi
Rajan Verma		as Raj Verma
Alka
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...		Guest Appearance
Dharmendra Dharmendra Dharmendra Singh Deol |Punjab]]), better known as Dharmendra, is an award-winning Hindi film actor who has appeared in more than 247 Hindi-language films as of 2011. In 1997, he received the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Hindi cinema and also another Lifetime...	Himself

External links

• MusicIndiaOnline page - includes first three songs and lyrics to "Ye Jeevan Hai"
• Piya Ka Ghar