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Mumbai (Bombay), the dream city with skyscrapers, has only one-room tenements for most of its citizens. There, they live and adapt themselves; their joys, sorrows, emotions, and even their grievances, confined to the four walls of the room. |
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Bharat Mahal is one such huge building where lives Ram with his aged parents, two brothers and his sister-in-law. To this abode comes the seventh member of the family, Malti, the bride of Ram.
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Malti comes from a place which still boasts of wide, green, open fields under a canopy of deep blue skies, with trees and flowers, hills and streams. |
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She comes to the dream city with hopes of an exciting, thrilling happy life. She discovers soon that the wide world of her own home-town has to be confined within the four walls of her new one-room home in Mumbai (Bombay). Happiness eludes Ram and Malti, despite their love and devotion to each other. |
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Malti finds it difficult to live, love or even quarrel in the one room with so many relations breathing down her neck! |
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Malti's problem is that of millions of men and women who have come from their spacious homes in their home-towns to Mumbai (Bombay), the city of skyscrapers, to be confined to one-room tenements, their problems of adjustment are innumerable. But in the course of time, they strike a compromise. They become part of the dream city. |
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The problems of the newly-weds who come to the dream city, their trials and tribulations, and their compromises is told in this breezy, marital comedy. |
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What Basu has wrought with total assurance in the film is a simple but moving story of simple people. He has blended dialogue, music (a haunting score from Ravindra Jain), settings, sumptuous photography (by K.K. Mahajan) and narration into a cinematic composition that commands both eye and ear and nourishes the spirit.
- THE EVENING NEWS |
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A clever adaptation of the "Family Way" and "Dastak", Rajshri Productions' "Piya Ka Ghar" is an amusing, delightful story of the embarrassing trials and tribulations that a newly married couple undergo in a one-room tenement in Mumbai (Bombay) in the midst of joint family. - THE HINDU, Mumbai (Bombay) |
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A heart-touching film that binds the film art and the filmgoer in a bond of friendship
- BLITZ, Mumbai (Bombay) |
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For once the blurb -- a breezy marital comedy of newly-weds in a Mumbai (Bombay) tenement -- is an apt description of the film it is advertising. A true-to-life story, Piya Ka Ghar shows how film-makers can present a social problem and make it entertaining.
- THE EVENING NEWS |
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