Sheeladevi’s visit does nothing to mitigate this situation either-in fact, it only escalates it. His sons assure him that they will pay for everything through “installments.” It’s the credit crisis-40 years early! The three women are increasingly competitive over whose home is the most luxurious and impressive, and arguments begin to erupt.
Our bahus are thrilled, especially when they invite her over for tea and she happily accepts.Ī frenzy of home renovation ensues, with each woman roping her husband into making improvements to their parts of the house-new furniture, new plaster, new paint, new cushions and curtains, and radios and air-conditioning. A famous film actress named Sheeladevi (Shashikala) buys the house next door and moves in, accompanied by her secretary Mahesh (Jagdeep). This idyllic life is about to be disrupted, though. He has a sweet setup indeed! The three daughters-in-law do their chores together happily and sing a very pretty song, “Hamre Aangan Bagiya.” This setup has worked well, and the fiercest arguments are over who gets to make Dinanath his morning tea. Updated to add: thanks to you guys, now I do! Unfortunately the credits are all in Hindi, and imdb is not very helpful so I don’t know the names of most of the principal actresses. Sita’s unmarried sister Mala (?) also lives with them and studies at the local college. The youngest son is Kanhaiya (Rajendranath), a pharmaceutical salesman, and he is married to Radha (Jayanthi). The middle son is Ram (Ramesh Deo) and his wife is of course Sita (Kanchana) he is a clerk at the high court and they have one child. The oldest son is Shankar (Agha), a music teacher married to Parvati (Sowcar Janaki), and they have five children. To maintain peace in the household, Dinanath has divided it into separate areas for each of his sons, and he keeps separate bank accounts for each as well. Dinanath is a retired school teacher, and he still gives his grandchildren lessons each morning at a chalkboard standing in the hall of their house. Plus, the songs are lots of fun (by Kalyanji Anandji) and hilariously picturized.ĭinanath (Prithviraj Kapoor) is the patriarch of a large, happy family consisting of his three sons and their wives and children. It reminded me of one of those 1950s Doris Day-Rock Hudson comedies.
Mostly it’s a funny story about a joint family and the plethora of complications that arise when a famous actress moves in next door. In fact, it’s quite sweet! It isn’t a feminist’s dream exactly, but given the time in which it was made it isn’t a nightmare either. I really need to pay closer attention to what I’m doing sometimes.īut since the stars are the likes of Rajendranath, Prithviraj Kapoor and Shashikala, I thought: how bad can it be? (Which admittedly has gotten me into trouble a few times, but I never learn.) And in what turned out to be a bit of serendipity, it isn’t bad at all. Then I realized that probably what I had planned to order was Teri Meherbaniyan. Since I have started avoiding films with words like “Bahu” in the title like the plague, I was a bit nonplussed when this film arrived in my mailbox.
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