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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... 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....
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...
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.
Malti finds it difficult to live, love or even quarrel in the one room with so many relations breathing down her neck!
Malti's problem is that of millions of men and women who have come from their spacious homes in their hometowns 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...
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
- 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)
- 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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