Ghar Basake Dekho
Ghar Basake Dekho (Start A Family) is a 1963 Hindi family drama film, directed by Kishore Sahu. The film was produced by Trikambhai Dave and Bal Chander Shukla for Ratandeep Pictures, with music composed by Chitragupta and lyrics written by Rajendra Krishan. The story was taken from the Gujarati stage writer Prabhulal Dwivedi's story, 'Grahasti'. The screenplay and dialogues were by Rajendra Krishan. Savitri, a top South Indian actress, made her Hindi film debut in "Ghar Basake Dekho" in a supporting role. The cast included Manoj Kumar, Rajshree, Shyama, Sudesh Kumar, Mehmood, Johnny Walker and Lalita  Pawar. Mehmood was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor. "Ghar Basake Dekho" was a family drama with romance and comedy interwoven in the story. The story revolves around a widowed mother, who mortgages her village house to educate her son in the city. The film then follows his marriage to a woman of his choice, who mistreats his family, and the repercussions it has on family and friends. Plot. Kamal Mehra (Sudesh Kumar) lives in a village with his mother Shanta (Lalita Pawar) and younger sister, Sharda (Rajshree). They are poor and his mother has to mortgage  her house in the village in order to send Kamal to Bombay for higher education. She expects him to pay off the mortgage debt once he gets a job. When Kamal gets a job, he court-marries Mona (Shyama) and then they visit his family in village, revealing there that they got married. Mona considers herself too modern for the village and gets bored there and soon enough both of them leaves for Bombay. When Kamal returns to his city life, he eventually stops sending money to his village family due to his increasing expenditures. Sometime late, Shanta and Sharda  are called to Bombay by Mona who writes a false letter mentioning Kamal is not well. In city, both Shanta and Sharda are ill-treated by Mona. Owing to her spendthrift habits, Mona depletes all earnings and savings of Kamal. One day, when Kamal goes for an office work to Puna, Mona fights with Shanta and Sharda following which both of them leaves the house for going back to their village. On the way to railway station, Shanta collides with Kumar's (Manoj Kumar) car, who takes them to his home for treatment. Kumar insists that they stay at his  place till the mother recovers. When Kamal returns home from Puna, he becomes upset to see his mother and sister missing. He leaves his office money (which he collected from Puna) with Mona, and goes off to his village to look for them. Meanwhile, Kumar and Sharda falls in love with each other and Kumar asks Shanta's permission to get married to Sharda and she agrees. Mona spends three-fourths of the money which Kamal had left in her care, and learning this he has to find ways to return the money to his employer. Kumar is actually Kamal 's employer. Shanta and Sharda become aware of this fact when they see Kumar shouting at Kamal for misusing office funds for his personal use. Kumar threatens Kamal to be thrown behind bars if he doesn't return the money in time. Sensing their misfortune, Shanta and Sharda runs away from Kumar's house without telling him anything. Finally, through emotional chain of events, Kamal re-unites with his mother and sister; Mona learns her lesson, and Kumar and Sharda get together and all ends well. There is a sub-plot in the form of Kamal and Mona's neighbours ; one is Sunder (Mehmood) and his wife Geeta (Savitri), who is shown as the traditional wife in comparison to Mona. Another neighbour is Jackson (Johnny Walker), who has left his wife Ganga (Minu Mumtaz) in the village. Soundtrack. One of the popular numbers from the film was "Tumne Hansi Hi Hansi Mein", sung by Lata Mangeshkar and Mahendra Kapoor. The composer was Chitragupta and the lyrics were written by Rajendra Krishan. The playback singing was provided by Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi, Suman Kalyanpur, Mahendra Kapoor, and Usha Mangeshkar.