Dil dil se milegaa
Posted on: December 15, 2025
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Hrishikesh Mukherjee has been known to make the family-oriented and ‘slice of the life’ types of films such as ‘Anuradha. (1960), ‘Anupama’ (1966), ‘Aashirwaad’ (1968), ‘Satyakam’ (1969), ‘Anand’ (1970), ‘Guddi’ (1971) and many more. When the film, ‘Sabse Bada Sukh’ (1972) was announced to be produced and directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee, it became a topic of discussion in the film magazines at that time because it was a sex comedy which was a departure from the usual theme of his films. It was a low budget film probably because Hrishikesh Mukherjee was taking a risk of experimenting with a story which was out of his comfort zone. The cast included Vijay Arora, Faiyyaz, Robi Ghosh, Naarghita, Rajnibala, Utpal Dutt, Asrani, Keshto Mukherjee, Tarun Ghosh, Meena Rai etc.
An edited VCD of the film has been uploaded on a video sharing platform, probably by a Romanian fan of Naarghita, a Romanian singer-dancer-actor who was working in the film. The video and audio quality are poor. Some of the scenes are not visible but luckily, the dialogues can be heard at these defective points. After watching the film, I felt that the theme of the film was not bad. But the film was a big letdown for the Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s admirers like me. I did not get the feel of Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s screenplay and direction and Gulzar’s dialogues in the film. It appears that the during the making of the film, Hrishikesh Mukherjee seems to have lost interest in the film – probably he was too busy with other films around that time like ‘Guddi’ (1971) ‘Baawarchi’ (1972) and Abhimaan’ (1973).
The gist of the story of the film is as under:
Laalu Sutar (Robi Ghosh) is returning to his village after working in Mumbai for six months and earning quite a good money. He arrives in his village with his flashy and branded tight-fitting dress in which his mother barely recognises him. He meets his close friend, Shankar (Vijay Arora) to whom he narrates the story of his good life in Mumbai with some boasting and shows the pictures of attractive woman in playboy magazine to Shankar. Laalu has also brought a few pictures of barely clad girls which he shows to Shankar secretly while his mother thinks that he has brought the pictures of gods. When Shankar asks him whether the pictures are real or painted, he replies that city girls are very sporting. They meet boys freely and walk together, something which is not seen in his village life. Shankar is eager to experience this kind of a freedom.
During his stay in his village, Laalu takes Shankar to a film shooting near the village with his offer to meet film’s beautiful heroine, Urvashi (Rajnibala). After this, Shankar is now bent upon visiting Mumbai with Laalu. So, he makes an excuse to visit Mumbai for the treatment of his chronic coughing. But his mother calls a local Vaid (Utpal Dutt) who have been orchestrated by Laalu with a 555 State Express cigarette packet and a lighter to recommend Shankar to be taken to a city doctor. Laalu volunteers to take Shankar to Mumbai where he knows a specialist doctor. Thus, both Laalu and Shankar departs for Mumbai to experience the greatest enjoyment of the life (Sabse Bada Sukh). In Mumbai, Laalu takes Shankar various places – from happening places like dance classes, night clubs, massage parlour, on the evening cruise and even the prostitutes’ street. But Shankar being brought up in an idealistic environment does not want to plunge into the pleasurable vices.
The story takes a turn from light comedy to a melodrama which appears in the film as a long sub-plot. Shankar feels homesick and wants to go back to his village. Laalu convinces him to enjoy the company of a prostitute before he goes home. Laalu takes Shankar to a streetwalker (Faiyyaz) who takes them to her house. She turns out to be a desperate mother seeking money for the treatment of her child by indulging in prostitution for the first time. Her husband has been put in the prison. The duo help her in overcoming her money problem and also working as her guardian for bringing doctor in her, buying her required medicines and also taking care of the child. The child recovers from the illness. They set her house in order to be self-sufficient for few days.
The film ends with Shankar and Laalu departing from her house without her knowledge when she is asleep. On the way, they realise that what they have been looking for in the city is nothing as compared to what they got ‘sabse bada sukh’ in helping someone in need.
The film had only two songs written by Yogesh which were set to music by Salil Chowdhary. One song has been covered on the Blog. I present the 2nd and the last remaining song, ‘dil dil se milega duniya ye jalega’ rendered by Nitin Mukesh and Naarghita who sing for themselves during the picturisation. The context of the song is that in their zeal to enjoy the greatest pleasure of life in Mumbai, Laalu (Robi Ghosh) takes Shankar (Vijay Arora) to one of the pleasure spots – the dance party on a ship on the way to Elephanta.
The singer, Naarghita (meaning ‘the song of the eternal spirit) was born as Maria Amarghioalei on January 14, 1939, in Vrancea county, Romania. She was a stage singer and dancer in Bucharest. Ever since she had watched ‘Aawaara’ (1951) sometime in 1956, she fell in love with Hindi film songs. She decided to teach herself Hindi by watching Hindi films and lip-syncing the songs. She also got trained in Hindi pronunciation by a Hindi professor in Bucharest. In Bucharest, while performing a ballet, she sang a Hindi film song for which she received tremendous responses. She made singing Hindi film songs as her profession in Romania and other foreign countries.
When the Prime Minister, India Gandhi visited Romania in 1967 on a state visit, Naarghita sang some Hindi film songs which impressed Indira Gandhi. She invited Naarghita to visit India. She accepted the invitation and visited India sometime in 1971. During her six-month stay in India as a guest of the Government, she met some of the eminent Hindi film personalities including, Raj Kapoor, O P Nayyar, Jaikishan, Lata Mangeshkar (her photos with them are available online). During this period, she got opportunity to act and sing a song for ‘Sabse Bada Sukh’ (1972).
After she returned to Romania, she continued to sing and released a number of albums of the cover version the popular Hindi films songs until about 1990. Some of her cover versions of Hindi film songs are available on the video sharing platforms.
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With this song, both the songs from the film have been represented on the Blog.
Video Clip:
Audio clip:
Song-Dil dil se milegaaa (Sabse Bada Sukh)(1972) Singers-Nitin Mukesh, Naarghita, Lyricist-Yogesh, MD-Salil Chaudhary
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Lyrics:
dil dil se milegaa
o yes dil milegaa
dil dil se milegaa
o yes dil milegaa
duniyaa ye jalegaa
o sure jalegaa
duniyaa ye jalegaa
o sure jalegaa
phir chhodo jaane do
ham pyaar na karegaa
kyun tum darega
na na
dil dil se milegaa
o yes dil milegaa
duniya ye jalegaa
o sure jalegaa
phir chhodo jaane do
ham pyaar na karegaa
oh no no no
tum karegaa
karegaa
jaan-e-jaana
aaja naa
aaja naa
dil ko apne
samjhaana
samjhaanaa
dil hai mera
deewaana
deewaanaa
kaisaa hai tu
mastaanaa
mastaanaa
hoooooo
dil tumne toda to
ham khaa ke kuchh maregaa
naheen naheen
dil dil se milegaa
o yes dil milegaa
dil dil se milegaa
o yes dil milegaa
duniyaa ye jalegaa
o sure jalegaa
duniyaa ye jalegaa
o sure jalegaa
phir chhodo jaane do
ham pyaar na karegaa
arre karegaa karegaa
karega
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