Ye ghunghroo maine baandhe
Posted on: October 31, 2025
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‘Jeewan Jyoti’ (1976) was produced under the banner of AVM Productions and was directed by Murugan Kumaran. The cast included Vijay Arora and Bindiya Goswami in the lead roles with the supporting cast of Rakesh Pandey, A K Hangal, Sulochana Chatterjee, Sudhir, Dinesh Hingoo, Om Shivpuri, Satyen Kappu, Dulari, Bhanumathi, Jayamalini, Halam, Ritu Kamal etc. Bindiya Goswami made her debut with this film. The film was a remake of a National Film Award winner Telugu film, ‘Mutyala Muggu’ (1975).
In the list of actors in the film, there is an actor, Halam, who is a dancer in one of the songs in the film. Since it was an unusual name, I search for her filmography in Telugu films since the film under discussion is a remake of a Telugu film. It was a pleasant surprise to know that she was a well-known dancer in the Telugu and Tamil films in the 1970s, mostly known for her item numbers as a dancer. She has mostly appeared in Hindi films made by producer/director from the South, like ‘Shehzaada’ (1972) ‘Gaai Aur Gori’ (1973), ‘Prem Nagar’ (1974), ‘Rani Aur Laal Pari’ (1974), ‘Dil Aur Deewaar’ (1978) and ‘Playboy’ (1978).
I had no idea about Halam’s personal details until I came across a short video clip in Telugu on one of the video sharing platforms which gives some basic information about her. Halam’s family was from the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, who settled in Tiruvallur near Chennai. Halam was born in Tiruvallur. Her father, Gutta Srinivas Rao was an atheist. She was sent to Chennai to get trained in Bharatanatyam dance. Her dance with A Nageshwar Rao in ‘Prema Nagar’, with Sivaji Ganesan in Tamil remake, ‘Vasantha Maligai’ and with Rajesh Khanna in Hindi remake, ‘Prem Nagar’ (1974) made her well-known as a dancer. Soon, she got the tag of dancer for the item songs. Since her face has some resemblance to Helen when dancing in her western attires, she was given a nick name of ‘Andhra Helen’.
During the shooting of Hindi film, ‘Playboy’ (1978) in Bengaluru, Halam met a Chinese restaurant owner whose family had settled in India for many years. He used to come to watch the film’s shooting. They fell in love with each other and got married in Chennai in 1979. An interesting feature of their marriage was that they exchanged garlands made up of vegetables and without Tali (sacred necklace) as her father, being an atheist, did not believe in Vedic rituals. After marriage, Halam did not work in films. Currently, they are stated to be settled in Singapore.
Another interesting thing to note is that being an atheist, Gutta Srinivas Rao has given his children some unusual names – Halam (plough), her sister, Kalam (Pen) and her brother, Balam (Strength). The names with English meanings suggest that Halam’s father may be the believer of the leftist ideology. Incidentally, Halam and Balam are Sanskrit words while Kalam is an Arabic word. Halam has two more siblings.
The story of the film is as under:
Shekhar is the only son of the wealthy widower, Raja Kamalakar (A K Hangal) and his widow sister, Pratima (Sulochana Chatterjee) stays with Raja. Harbans (Rakesh Pandey), his close friend has asked some financial help for arranging the marriage of his sister, Laxmi (Bindiya Goswami) with Mohan (Sudhir). Raja agrees and asks Shekhar to personally hand over the money with a wedding saree and attend the marriage. On the day of the marriage, Mohan is arrested by the police just before the marriage ceremony is to begin on the ground that he was already married a week earlier with another girl to whom he has cheated. Harbans is put in a piquant situation and his mother falls unconscious. To save the honour of his friend, Shekhar offers himself to marry Laxmi, which Harbans gladly agrees. The marriage ceremony is over and Rakesh with his wife, Laxmi proceed home.
As soon as Rakesh reaches home, Somnath (Satyen Kappu), father of Sudha (Jayamalini) takes objection as Raja has earlier agreed to get Sudha married to Rakesh. Raja is also not happy with this marriage. However, his sister, Pratima convinces Raja to accept the marriage. Shekhar and Laxmi are accepted in the house which Somnath resents. Laxmi gels well with the family and her married life is blissful.
Somnath in connivance with Raja’s treasurer, (Dinesh Hingoo) plans conspiracy to trap Laxmi so that Raja and Shekhar loss confidence in her and she is expelled from the house. First, they steal the family temple’s gold jewellery from the Safe and try to put the blame on Laxmi. But it gets misfired as she herself finds the lost jewellery in a well. They blame temple priest which is also not tenable as the keys of the Safe is with the treasurer or Somnath. So, the first conspiracy fails miserably. They engage Gopaldas (Om Shivpuri), a contractor and a man of doubtful character, to work out a foolproof conspiracy to break the Shekhar’s marriage with Laxmi for which he will be handsomely rewarded.
Gopaldas entrusts the work to Mohan, now released from the prison after he was arrested on the day of his marriage with Laxmi. He telephones to Laxmi followed by his so-called love letters which are intercepted by Shekhar. Subsequently, Shekhar sees Mohan coming out of the bedroom of Laxmi. All these events create suspicion in his mind that Laxmi is having an affair with Mohan. Rakesh expels a pregnant Laxmi from the house but for the consumption of Raja and Pratima, he pretends to be sending her to her mother’s house. However, in reality she has been left in a lurch and lands in temple’s priest’s house. After few months, she delivers twins – a boy and a girl.
Rakesh is depressed by the events in his life when Somnath suggests him that he should get married to his daughter, Sudha as agreed earlier. However, Rakesh ignores him. Having achieved his purpose of breaking the marriage of Rakesh with Laxmi, Gopaldas becomes more greedy and targets Raja’s collections of antiques and jewellery. He persuades Somnath to get his daughter Sudha married to Mohan. Once done, Gopaldas blackmails Somnath forcing him to bring antiques and jewellery from Raja’s palace. Raja hears the conversation. With Rakesh depressed and not taking interest in the affairs in his palace, Gopaldas virtually runs the Raja’s household through Somnath. Raja decides to shift the jewellery in the temple leaving to the God to protect it and leaves his palace wandering without any destination.
While wondering aimlessly, Raja accidentally meets Laxmi in the priest’s house where he has gone seeking water for quenching his thirst. He is united with his daughter-in-law Laxmi and her children. He requests her to return to his house. Laxmi put a condition that unless Rakesh comes and says that she is innocent, she will not return. Now it is left to Laxmi’s children to unite them with Rakesh to expose the nexus of Somnath and Gopaldas. They start working with them as their maids in which Laxmi’s pet monkey helps. With inside information gathered by Laxmi’s children, Somnath and Gopaldas are exposed in the presence of Raja, Rakesh and Laxmi. Raja’s family is once again united.
The film had six songs written by Anand Bakshi which were set to music by Salil Chaudhary. Three songs have been covered on the Blog. I present the 4th song, ‘ye ghunghroo maine baandhe’ rendered by Asha Bhosle. The tune of the song has been taken from a Bengali non-film song, o mor moyna go composed by Salil Chaudhary and rendered by Lata Mangeshkar. However, orchestration has been changed to make it suitable for a dance song. It is an item song picturised on Halam while Satyen Kappu and Om Shivpuri watching her dance performance from the balcony of the house.
Incidentally, this is the only film in which Anand Bakshi wrote lyrics for the music director, Salil Chaudhary.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Ye ghunghroo maine baandhe(Jeevan Jyoti)(1976) Singer-Asha Bhonsle, Lyrics-Anand Bakshi, MD-Salil Chaudhary
Lyrics:
ye ghunghroo
ye ghunghroo
ghunghroo maine baandhe to o
chham chhamaa chham naache jawaanee ke jaadoo
sab huaa par kuchh na hua tujhe baaboo
ye ghunghroo
ye ghunghroo
ghunghroo maine baandhe to o
chham chhamaa chham naache jawaanee ke jaadoo
sab huaa par kuchh na huaa tujhe baaboo
ye ghunghroo
main chalee to chale zamaanaa bhee
main rukee to ruk gayaa zamaanaa bhee
main chalee to chale zamaanaa bhee
main rukee to ruk gayaa zamaanaa bhee
jhuktee huyee in aankhon kee
ruktee huyee in saanson ke
jhuktee huyee in aankhon kee
ruktee huyee in saanson ke
bhed bhaav na jaane re tu
ghunghroo
ye ghunghroo
ghunghroo maine baandhe to o
chham chhamaa chham naache jawaanee ke jaadoo
sab huaa par kuchh na huaa tujhe baaboo
ye ghunghroo
yoon kisee se raahon mein miltee hoon
wo kalee hoon barso mein khiltee hoon
yoon kisee se raahon mein miltee hoon
wo kalee hoon barson mein khiltee hoon
poochhe ye koi dilwaalon se
phoolon ne churaayaa mere gaalon se
poochhe ye koi dilwaalon se
phoolon ne churaayaa mere gaalon se
laal rang pyaaree pyaaree khushboo
ghunghroo
ye ghunghroo
ghunghroo maine baandhe to o
chham chhamaa chham naache jawaanee ke jaadoo
sab huaa par kuchh naa huaa tujhe baaboo
ye ghunghroo…oo oo oo
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